[Eug-lug] Anyone wanna help us with a database?

[lorraine]

Hey hey,
We got a fab volunteer who is going to help us get it up and running. The
questions poised by the group have actually been very helpful. Getting a
database custom designed for our org was more than I had hoped for, but, ask
and we did receive!
lorraine

On 4/22/07 9:41 PM, "larry price" <laprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/07, lorraine <lorraine at nextsteprecycling.org> wrote:
>> Hi Silver,
>> What would you suggest? Not emotionally tied, just happens we all use Macs!
>> We have a Mac house here. All ideas welcome. So far, all the open source
>> folks say use ebase. Do you know of some other way we could go?
>> thanks
>> lorraine
> 
> What are you trying to accomplish with this database?
> 
> Is it supposed to be the repository and record for everything the
> organisation does and all the data the organisation generates, or is
> it somewhat more focused than that?
> 
> For a general purpose database that you are going to use for
> accounting and recording large amounts of custom data, I would suggest
> PostgreSQL which has a fairly large number of programming interfaces
> available and is relatively well known.  And there are several people
> on this list who use it professionally.
> 
> see http://postgresql.org
> 
> It will run on OS X or Linux.