[X Newbies] database software?

[Mark Taintor]

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 08:32  PM, KL wrote:

> hi,
> I was wondering if there might be a software that is suited to making 
> class
> rosters and doing simple data analysis like excel but perhaps a bit 
> more
> 'unix-like'?.  I've heard that perl might do the job (?) I've looked 
> at R
> which seems to have really powerful statistical tools, but perhaps a 
> bit too
> much for the simple task of keeping track of a set of numbers 
> corresponding
> to a set of names and producing histograms every now and then. I guess 
> my
> question really is, if one would use latex in place of word, what 
> might one
> use in place of excel for the task of keeping a classroom list?
> Thanks,
> KL
Have you thought about Filemaker or even Appleworks? I'm not sure what 
you mean by unix-like, but I've used both Filemaker and Appleworks for 
class database purposes.

Mark Taintor
Chanhassen, MN USA