BTW - JDBC is known to be buggier and slower than ODBC. ODBC should be much more reliable, considering distros come with it already. It is still very "young" , although tons better than MS's and jdbc. I can't speak for oracle but there was a recent battle that include all 3 databases and mentioned the JDBC.
MS SQL won that test but only with a natively ported test suite. MySQL beat oracle in the official battle (with JDBC iirc). JDBC was used for portability. Tom Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [luau] OOo 1.1.0 & MySQL One of the main advantages of OOo 1.1 is its integration with MySQL. This opens up an almost infinite number of doors for OOo to be eventually adopted as a key business tool. I came across an article discussing the integration of OOo and MySQL. It is written in Chinese. However, from the URL and screenshots, you should be able to figure out what it was talking about. There are other distinct advantages of OOo vis-a-vis Microsoft Office. For example, you can install different language versions of OOo on the same machine (e.g., I have installed traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, and Japanese versions of OOo 1.1.0 on my Athlon XP). The way OOo/Linux is configured, you are able to run each language version as if you were in its own localized environment. Super cool. However, OOo is not very stable, at least not as stable as MS Office. This is further compounded by the fact that different components of the OOo suite are not running as separate programs. Thus, if one component crashes, you have to kill (alt-ctl-escape) the entire program. This underscores the importance of the need to accumulate user experience--so as to know where the land mines are and avoid them. I have recruited a couple of very distinguished local tax lawyers who are also well versed in MS Office to try OOo/Linux. I am debating whether I should wait until the 2.6 kernel becomes final (i.e., incorporated into Red Hat) to start their journey. In the meantime, if anyone has any experience in using OOo 1.1, please be gracious in sharing it with us. _______________________________________________ LUAU mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
