The impetus for developing Kexi came from a noticeable lack of applications having the features of Microsoft Access, FoxPro, Oracle Forms or FileMaker while at the same time being powerful, inexpensive, open-standards-driven and sufficiently portable. Kexi is a component of Calligra Suite. It works under Linux/Unix, Mac OS X (using Fink), Solaris, and the Microsoft Windows (using KDE on Windows) operating systems. Kexi application and libraries is available under the LGPL. User and developer documentation is available under the GFDL.