When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications. Despite their widespread use, in some ways they ...

Let's face it, databases are only minimally human-readable. Or, at least, that's the case in OpenOffice.org Base, regardless of whether you view a database's tables directly or filter them through a ...

I just opened a retail location for my IT consulting biz, and expect to have some walk-in clients. I'd like to work up some sort of system that will store the client's contact information and ...

Oracle is submitting the code base for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, where the productivity suite will live on in the group’s incubator program for open source software initiatives ...