(See References, below) This article isn't a How-to, or a product review. Now there have been many articles written about Base. I had used Microsoft Access many years ago and I do have a lot of experience with PostgreSQL and MySQL, so I figured I'd be able to pick up Base in short order and be able to build a customized application for my wife. When I started, I'd never used Base before and even had to install the program on both my machine and my wife's before I could get started. So I decided that I'd see just how involved it would be to write an application with Open Office's database program, known as Base.

To her credit, she realized that she couldn't simply use a spreadsheet and needed a database application. This is the situation I found myself in when my wife started a new business and needed a simple means of tracking sales leads. Even with all of the high quality software available, sometimes you just have to break down and write a custom application, and usually you don't have a lot of time to devote to it.

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