I'm wanting to make a project tracking system to track an Access project I'm
working on, and allow the clients real-time access to it, but the clients (being
the distributors, not the users of the Access database) are mostly Mac users.

I was trying to figure out if there's some free or very cheap file-based,
multi-user database front/back end combination that works equally well with PC
or MAC. The requirements for the system are really simple. Just one main
table, and several lookup tables.

Any suggestions?

Steve Jorgensen <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) nospam> wrote:

FileMaker Pro. It also has a web component although that as an additional fee.

Tony
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If it is a small database I'd probably make it web-based,
browser-accessible. I use a Mac at work and have no software that would
compare to Access. It is insane that it is not available for MacOS.
You can develop it in Access (somewhat limits your web server choice) or
MySQL (just about any cheap web host will have support for that). It is
fairly easy to port Access to MySQL.

Cheers,
Pavel

Steve Jorgensen wrote:

Well, the idea was to have this be some kind of shared file stored on one of
their machines, and throwing together a little form. Instaling and maintaining
a server process somewhere is a much heavier solution than what I'm after. If
anything, I would tend to go the other direction, just make it a spreadsheet
file, and forget about shared access.

On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 13:29:53 -0600, Pavel Romashkin
<pavel_romashkin (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote: