Submission + - Ask Slashdot: easy alternative to MS Access for an easy-to-use DB for a charity? 5
danzvash writes: I'm doing some volunteering for a street kids charity in Senegal, West Africa, and they need a new database to store all their information for the kids, and to help the funding organisations like UNICEF. The charity staff have a few computers running Windows 7. Being a die-hard OSS geek I'm more inclined to knock up a MySQL backend with a Django (or similar) frontend and run the whole thing from a reliable VPS. But it needs to be understandable by the non-geeks in the charity — there is no IT expertise here. Is there anything that can allow me to design and edit databases, tables, and forms but doesn't require an MS license?
Yes there are plenty that don't require MS (Score:1)
Maybe I can help (Score:1)
Drupal (Score:2)
http://www.drupal.org/ [drupal.org] is a good choice.
MARS (Score:1)
MS Access has a free runtime. MS does not advertize but google it youll find it. also be sure to run the split db wizzard so you can delpoly it a multiuser app.
iHRIS in Senegal (Score:1)