| There's more to a whip-up-able database than a GUI. Every open
source db designer I've seen assumes that the user has
already gotten through several steps that most beginner users
find insurmountable, in particular, creating the database
itself. To create a database in MySql you usually haver to go
to the sysadmin and ask for a new database. That right
there will stop most users. With Access you have a simple
paradigm that users understand: it's a file. You open Access,
say where the file goes, and there you go. You can move the
file around, copy it, back it up, etc. You don't need
anybody's permission to do so and you it's easy to get started
in.
That's the kind of ease-of-use I'd like to see in an OSS
database. If SourceForge has something like that I'll be very
interested. -Miko |
