- Kexi
Infobox Software
name = Kexi
caption = Kexi screenshot
developer = [http://kexi-project.org/people.html Kexi Team]
latest_release_version = 1.1.3
latest_release_date = release date|2008|06|07
operating_system =Cross-platform
genre = Database creation program
license = mostly LGPL and GPL
website = [http://kexi-project.org/ kexi-project.org]Kexi is an integrated data management application, designed to fill the gap between
spreadsheet s and database solutions requiring more sophisticated development. Kexi can be used for designing and implementingdatabase s, data inserting and processing, and performing queries.The impetus for developing Kexi came from a noticeable lack of applications having the features of
Microsoft Access ,FoxPro ,Oracle Forms orFileMaker while at the same time being powerful, inexpensive, open-standards-driven and sufficiently portable.Kexi is a component of
KOffice , with large contributions coming since early2003 fromOpenOffice Polska [http://kde.org/support/thanks.php] [http://www.kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php@SponsorshipThanks.html] (currentlyOpenOffice Software ). It works underLinux /Unix ,Mac OS X (usingFink ), Solaris, and theMicrosoft Windows operating systems. Although Kexi is an open source application, currently OpenOffice Software is charging for the full featured Windows version, due to the cost of commercial tools (Qt and compiler) needed to port the software to Windows. [http://kexi.pl/en/Support/The_cost_of_Kexi_for_MS_Windows] Thanks to the recent open-sourcing of the Qt library, a free alpha version for Windows is available through theKDE on Windows program. [http://www.koffice.org/news.php#itemTheFirstreleaseofKOffice20alphaforWindows]Features
Kexi can connect to different database servers such as
MySQL andPostgreSQL .It can also work without a server, by utilizing the built-in
SQLite database engine. Forms can be created to provide a custom interface to data, and are stored within the database. Simple reports can be printed or previewed. Scripting using Python and Ruby is available as well as application macros, similar to those inMicrosoft Access (in experimental stage). All database objects - tables, queries, forms, etc. - are stored in a single database file, making it easy to share data and design.If
SQLite is used, the resulting database file can be manipulated using many other SQLite tools, including the Tcl programming language.See also
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Comparison of office suites External links
* [http://koffice.org/kexi/features.php Kexi features]
* Kexi Project web sites
** http://kexi-project.org (home page with information for advanced users and developers)
** http://koffice.org/kexi (general information for users)
* [http://kexi.pl/ Commercial Kexi releases by OpenOffice Software]
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