Over the last months, we have worked on providing OpenOffice.org Base with a built-in database engine, namely HSQLDB.
This required work in OpenOffice.org's code, and *substantial* work in HSQLDB code - more than we originally estimated. It's definately true that without the invaluable, voluntary help of the HSQLDB project maintainer, Fred Toussi, we would not have reached the current status, by far. In addition, there's still some work to be done, and some desired features to be implemented. While OpenOffice.org work is paid by the project sponsor's, in particular Sun Microsystems, Inc., there is no such funding available for the HSQLDB project. If you want to support the HSQLDB integration in OpenOffice.org, and help to ensure that OpenOffice.org gets a compelling, powerful database engine, making it the ultimate open source office suite database solution available, please consider donating to the HSQLDB project: Visit http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net/web/openoffice.html and learn what you can do to help making this integration a success! While we, as the core OpenOffice.org project, have - with Sun Microsystems, Inc. - a major sponsor paying a lot of our bills (e.g. the hosting at collab.net, and the majority of active core developers), not every open source project is equally lucky. Since "open source" does not automatically imply "free beer", I definately believe that the approach chosen by the HSQLDB project is worth your consideration! Even if you can't help by donating, please spread the word about the above site, so others with an equally large interest in the HSQLDB integration know about it. Thank you, and Regards -- - Frank Sch�nheit [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Project Owner OpenOffice.org Base http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://www.sun.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
