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Ask HN: What are MS Access's biggest competitors?
- 27182818284 14y agoIn practice I've seen Excel by far as its main competition followed by FileMaker Pro, but the latter not nearly as much as people simply using the spreadsheet. There is at least one YC W13 company that is working on removing the Big Ol' Excel sheet of company passwords, in case you were asking with respect to startup business ideas.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoMS Excel
- LarryMade2 14y agoYeah, don't underestimate the power and flexibility of Excel... also the corners you can paint yourself into by using it...
- dragonbonheur 14y agoI'd say it's mainly SQLite by itself over Libre/Open Office or Kexi or Glom because the others don't have viewers and SQLite is bundled with mobile devices and operating systems. Of course, the comparison may seem odd given that Access has a GUI and SQLite is just the database engine but some consideration should be given to the fact that people who operate databases often know how to use SQL commands and won't have any problem learning scripting languages to build applications to ease data entry. Software like GAMBAS makes that easy on Linux. Access users should have no trouble converting to GAMBAS at all. But for casual use outside of custom applications design Libre/Open Office are the biggest threat to Access.
- Vomzor 14y agoFilemaker
- rman666 14y agoFileMaker Pro, but it's expensive.