Welcome to the Base Users Group
 Base
is the database program which ships with OpenOffice.org
2.1.x and is generally meant to be a replacement for
Microsoft's Access. The Office Suite is Open Source
and free to purchase and distribute. With currently
hundreds of thousands of users, it has the potential to be
the most used database on earth. The price is
certainly attractive and whether you use it for a front end
to MySQL or as a stand alone product, you are likely to need
a question or two answered. There is an OOo users list-serv
available at
http://OpenOffice.org but the bulk of the questions are
installation issues from newbies around the world.
Hopefully, you can post your questions in our forum as well
as help other users with their data Base issues. If
you have extra time to devote to improving the product or
documentation or perhaps writing a small application to
further our project, please contact the
webmaster@baseusers.com to communicate your desires.
Now that we have Base, instead of searching download.com for a
cheap prospect management system to handle our sales leads
and follow them to sales invoices and all of the other
little packages that we used to buy; we can simply write our
own. Custom. Just for us. We can add the
little snippet that no commercial package has. And if
it is really good, we can sell it. Wow! Imagine that!
Me, writing software.
Getting Started with Base
Connecting to
MySQL
and PostgreSQL
OpenOffice.org Wiki
Base Documentation
How to link tables using
SQL parameters
OpenOffice.org
Specifications
The
OpenOffice.org Base mailing list
subscribe and unsubscribe and
archive resource
migrating from M$ Access to OOo
Base
Official OpenOffice.org Migration Guide book
Here is the document that best aids in
migrating
from MS Office to OpenOffice
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