Microsoft Access and Publisher's Alternative

ussr_1991 · 03-21-2007, 09:49 PM

I heard that Openoffice.org is a wonderful alternative to MS-Word,PowerPoint and Excel. how about Access and Publisher? It will be good if these 2 version can be added into Openoffice.org if not is there other similar programs that support these 2 programs?
Thanks.

R00T.OSIRIS · 03-21-2007, 10:56 PM

OpenOffice Base, for a database application like Access.
OpenOffice is also effectively Publisher, with most the basic options one could want.
You could also look into Scribus.

ussr_1991 · 03-22-2007, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by R00T.OSIRIS

OpenOffice is also effectively Publisher, with most the basic options one could want.

Ok, then Openoffice.org can settle all my problems? By then which 1 since there is Impress, Writer etc. Although they served as PowerPoint and Word respectively,(I noe that) how about others since there are serveal of them in a package? I am new 2 it.

Marsolin · 03-22-2007, 01:36 PM

There are quite a few Access alternatives. OpenOffice.org Base, Kexi, Glom, Knoda, Rekall, and Bond are some worth looking at.

Publisher alternatives include Scribus, Artstream, PageStream, Passpartout, and VivaDesigner. I recommend starting with Scribus.

rickh · 03-22-2007, 02:42 PM

If your needs are at all sophisicated, don't depend on OOBase. Last time I checked which, admittedly, was a year or so ago, none of the others mentioned by Marsolin was a neat substitute either.

The closest thing that I have seen to MS Access (which I used professionally for years) is ReKall used as a front end for MySQL or Postgresql. The learning curve is steep, but it can be done.