Thanks for the information.

>There are several combinations.
>1) Oracle + Tora (similar to Toad)+ Browser (Galeon, Mozilla, Konqueror - I like Galeon.)
>2) Forte4j + Java + MySQL or PostgreSQL
>3) KDevelop + Qt3 + C++ + PostgreSQL
>4) Kylix + one of several backends.
>5) D3 for Linux, from RainingData (a GUI RAD based on the Pick System. A complete GUI RAD Dev tool + RDBMS.
>6) Dozens of other IDE & GUI RADs, like Emacs, CodeWarrior, etc. Lacking a good GUI design tool makes them harder to use and less efficent.
>7) Believe it or not, you can use OpenOffice and have a complete GUI RAD dev tool. OO has an internal dBase driver and data source administration. The development screens look a lot like Access. Or, one can easily create an ODBC connection to MySQL (which I did last night) and have a very nicely integrated system, with tables, forms, reports, queries, labels, edit screens, etc... The whole works. Integration into a wp, spreadsheet, presentation manager and graphics system is a bonus, and most could be done without writing a single like of code using StarBasic.
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>Option 3, my favorite, is entirely LGPL or GPL. KDevelop is equal to or better than most GUI RAD Dev tools, and I prefer it to Kylix. C++ is the most powerful language of all and is OOP. With Qt 3.x, data-aware widgets make form design a snap. PostgreSQL allows the use of C & C++ code in the stored procedures, and as extensions to supplied functions. It is also an OOP database base, allowing inheritance from other tables. It is very Oracle compatible in its SQL syntax and has a nice maintenance app in psql. There is an entire enterprise accounting package, SQL-Ledger, written in Perl for PostgreSQL, and it is GPL, which means the source is included. http://www.sql-ledger.org/
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>http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Financial/Accounting/ (several acct packages)
>http://www.fitrix.com/ (non GPL)