On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 11:46 +0000, Andrew Brown wrote: > Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > In > > addition some notice is taken of the whole community view through > > issuezilla and the lists - BAse is a good example of a major application > > resulting from this. > > > > Where does this story come from?
Its not a story. I certainly was part of discussions about the need for a database for the education market in particular. We had fundraising meetings etc > So far as I know, Base was entirely > written by Sun employees -- at least they were the ones who folded an > existeing java database (hsqldb) into openoffice. I don't think pressure > from these mailing lists had anything much to do with it. You don't think? If you had been more involved with the discussions at the time you might think differently ;-) While its true Sun engineers did the work it is also true that other people had a hand in the early decisionmaking process. I put some money into research commissioned from one of the UK universities here, that was passed on aand discussed with the dba project engineers in the early stages. Sun already had a database for StarOffice so it was not that high on their radar until the community and the people working on that aspect came together. While it is arguable as to how much influence the community has in anything, I think that the evidence is that in this particular case it could well have tipped the balance between having and not having Base as it is in OOo20. Who actually implemented it and in what code is a different issue. Writing code is not the only way of influencing OOo development and take up. It is one very important way but other things do have some impact. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
