SAMBA and MS Office, etc.

[rhofland at fastdial.net (Randall Hofland)]

And any comments on the Adabas database in StarOffice 5.2 and other database
options that would run under both Linux and Windows. Thanks!

>
>I'm trying to figure out the best and very cheapest way to build a small network

>and database system for a client. There are already databases built in MS Access

>and Lotus Approach, and I had thought to just continue to use those as the
core
>of a distributed system from an NT based server, or perhaps from a SAMBA based

>LINUX server.
>
>One problem I am having is finding the low cost office suites to use those
data
>bases, and I didn't want to get into a web based SQL server at this point.
So
>I'm wondering whether StarOffice 5.2 might serve well as the office suite on

>each computer and then upload the Approach and Access data files onto the LINUX

>box under SAMBA, or if mandatory, under NT 4.0.
>
>Any thoughts on this approach?
>
>TIA,  Randy Hofland
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