[BNM] Contacts database

Chris Billett chris at chrisbillett.net
Wed Mar 26 11:42:25 GMT 2008


Cheers Jay, I will look at them both and see what they have to offer.

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Chris Billett <chris at chrisbillett.net>
> wrote:
>> I'm looking into the best way to manage a new contacts database (which
>>  will be quite large) for a start-up. Does anyone have any top tips? The
>>  last big databases I've seen used for this have been Filemaker
>> (which...
>>  yuck?), Now Contact (haha!) and Access (best of a bad bunch, maybe).
>> I'd
>>  like to do better for this one.
>>
>>  What are peoples thoughts on an online database? Are there any open
>> source
>>  front ends with a MySQL database or anything that people have used? My
>>  googling hasn't brought up any non-sponsored results, but I figure
>> someone
>>  on BNM must have experience in this...
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