Freeware database program

IncredibleHulk

Looking for suggestion re above. One that does a similar job to excel. Need a contact database of business contacts. Basic one would do,absolutely no adware/spyware

Thanks

Edit because was not sure what wanted

Zascar

If you want a crm type database look no further than www.sugarcrm.com

aidan_walsh

Excel is spreadsheets, Access is databases. Which one are you looking for?

IncredibleHulk

aidan_walsh wrote: »

Excel is spreadsheets, Access is databases. Which one are you looking for?

Sorry. looking for a database to hold contacts names/phone numbers/business details etc.

Thanks

IncredibleHulk

Zascar wrote: »

If you want a crm type database look no further than www.sugarcrm.com

no free version?

Karoma

SugarCRM: it's overkill.


(Excel is a spreadsheet, not a database.)

http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html (database)
http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html (Spreadsheet like Excel)
+ more. Free.

IncredibleHulk

Karoma wrote: »

SugarCRM: it's overkill.


(Excel is a spreadsheet, not a database.)

http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html (database)
http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html (Spreadsheet like Excel)
+ more. Free.

IncredibleHulk

Karoma wrote: »

SugarCRM: it's overkill.


(Excel is a spreadsheet, not a database.)

http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html (database)

Can I download base alone or have i to download all the office suite. Is it hard on memory ?

degsie

IncredibleHulk wrote: »

Can I download base alone or have i to download all the office suite. Is it hard on memory ?

Geeze, how lazy are you :rolleyes: check out the openoffice site or use google to find out!

IncredibleHulk

degsie wrote: »

Geeze, how lazy are you :rolleyes: check out the openoffice site or use google to find out!

Actually,I had checked and had found it seemed you have to download the whole program 105 MB. Reason is it is for someone who does not know much about computers and would prefer the database part alone as they only want database, but got all since cannot get base as stand alone ;-)

degsie

Aethera might work for you.

Capt'n Midnight

anyone know if Thunderbird + an extension would do ?

http://jpeters.no-ip.com/extensions/?page=tb_cs


Do you want to mailmerge the contacts or share them betweeen lots of people or do you just want to put your contacts on a list ?

IncredibleHulk

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Do you want to mailmerge the contacts or share them betweeen lots of people or do you just want to put your contacts on a list ?

I do not want to share them with others but will need to mailmerge them for letters being sent. I downloaded openoffice.org and it has a database but it may have too much. Basically want to have a list of contacts which can retrieve with say a surname or dob and to be able to mailmerge a sales letter to all - or some- of them

Thanks everyone for response/suggestions

Snowbat

What about Windows Address Book (Start > All Programs > Accessories > Address Book)? I think it came with Internet Explorer 5.5 and later. There are quite a number of fields available, not just email and phone number. Thunderbird can be configured to use it.