GS-Base

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Posted by Achim
Jun 15, 2011 at 11:53 PM

Hi,

GS-Base was shortly mentioned sometimes ago, but it seems that it hasn’t got it’s own post to date.

It’s roughly comparable with (the abandoned) TablePro, but with much more features:

File attachments
Memo fields with basic rtf formatting
Printing formatted reports
Pdf output
A lot of Excel-like functions for calculating, extracting, manipulating etc.
color flags
password protection
stores in plain text files (zipped)
choice between form view and in-place editing
multiple tables per database handling
portable installation
Pivot tables and more

It’s a quite handy tool to maintain lists and small databases of any kind and so far it runs pretty stable.

The support is outstanding. Emails are answered the same day, bugs are fixed within a few days, and the developer is always interested in suggestions for features and improvements.

There is a 30 day trial available and the price is $ 19,95.

http://www.citadel5.com/gs-base.htm

Best regards

Achim

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 16, 2011 at 02:33 PM

For the money, GS-Base is a nice database. I’ve got a copy on my office PC. For me, the biggest drawback, and why I can’t really use it, is that it does not adequately print mailing labels. It has the feature, but the user has to design the layout and I can’t get it to print mailing labels in a standard 3 column by 10 row format that actually fits onto the Avery labels (this is all in U.S. sized paper, etc…).

Steve Z.

Posted by GeorgeB
Jun 16, 2011 at 09:14 PM

I’ve been playing with GS-Base for the last couple of hours and I like it. I may use it for simple club fund accounting and inventory. It’s a bargain for $19.95. I appreciate the heads-up. gB

Posted by Graham Rhind
Jun 17, 2011 at 01:36 PM

Ah, now this is a program that I can really appreciate! Especially for its close interoperability with dbf files and its storage of data in UTF-8 format (zipped text files). Just its ability to transfer my data from dbf to Unicode makes it worth the price!

Funny that I’ve never come across it before ...

Graham

Posted by GeorgeB
Jun 17, 2011 at 07:07 PM

Man, Jarek Piechura, the developer, blazed on his response to an email question I had. That’s support. gB -)

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