don't waste your time (Score 1)

http://www.quickbase.com/ ... web-based, hosted by intuit, multi-user, permissions, file attachments, easy gui tools for editing the db, customizable interface, http, java, perl, vb, ruby apis, xml in/out.

there are also a few others: http://www.dabbledb.com/ http://www.eunifydb.net/

http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/dabble-db- new-look-in-web-databases.html