B.2. Personal and Freeware Databases
The term personal may be interpreted two ways: by cost and by the size of the target end-user audience. What further muddies the water are vendors from the "big list" in the previous section who have designed their products to run on anything from a cell phone up to large network clusters. When you get down to the cell phone level, however, it's a sure bet that there is some powerful middleware in the mix and a very thin client on the cell phone!
Two examples of personal database platforms are presented here. This list is not intended to be comprehensive but to give an overview of various approaches to solving the problems of an individual or a small work-group that needs more than a spreadsheet to manage ...
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