Base is recognized for its cross-platform compatibility relative to Microsoft Access, which is developed exclusively for Windows. Similarly to the other packages in the LibreOffice suite, Base is supported across multiple platforms including Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. LibreOffice Base was built off of a fork of and was first released as version 3.4.0.1 on October 4, 2011. LibreOffice Base is a free and open-source database development and administration tool for relational database management systems that is part of the LibreOffice office suite.

MPLv2.0 (secondary license GPL, LGPLv3+ or Apache License 2.0) Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows But if a better option comes along I want to be the first to know. Trying to please everyone simultaneously sometimes is difficult. These products were not necessarily designed with the intent of “working together” originally, and those products are being updated as we speak so the LibreOffice design team has a very lofty goal of making the database(s) and their macro systems all work under one engine. I think there may be some conflict between the three, trying to make them all function if not simultaneously than “together” or something. It appears to me there is a big push to make Base import or operate Access databases. But in my experience LibreOffice Base does not yet have the necessary features to implement Firebird successfully for anything other than very simple stuff.

Firebird is a major backbone of numerous commercial products, and Firebird is a great product, I was really looking forward to it. For what it’s worth I spent a lot of time trying to get Firebird to do basic stuff in Base (several hundred manhours).

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