I am thinking of writing a small application for the administration of a yoga studio. It should contain the data of the students, classes, payments, attendance etc etc.

Now, if this were a web-based application, I would have no problems programing it in perl with a mysql database. But this should be an application running on several platforms (certainly Windows and Mac OS X), where perl is not installed, no webserver is installed, and no database is installed (I am considering of selling the application to other yoga studios).

So, here are my requirements:
1. cross-platform code
2. embedded database
3. easy to install

What language/tools/database would you use to develop such an application?

Thanks for all your thoughts.

Ivan
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