Hello David, 2011/9/14 David Nelson <[email protected]>
> Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Ian Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > > I know that > > the PostgreSQL developers are interested in closer integration with OOo > from > > direct talks with them and we will be looking at this in more detail and > we > > have realistic chances of getting significant funding resources. > > This sounds like one possible good move for LibreOffice: Base as as a > front end and PostgreSQL as the engine at the back. That way, we only > have to provide a decent, reliable front end, and we have a > well-supported database engine. Although I would not like to give up > on the possibility of supporting other databases, too. Although if I > had to make a pragmatic choice between badly-implemented complexity of > support for multiple engines and well-implemented support for just one > engine, I'd choose the latter. > I would indeed not want to give up all the database for one. It would not make sense. > > Although, like Tom, I'd love to see TDF get something moving with > Google (one of our supporters, no?) and work on Google Docs > integration. > Google Docs is proprietary... > > Charles, could we maybe get some technical opinions from Michael and > Thorsten about the feasibility of the above ideas? Michael, Thorsten, > could you maybe explain to us what the problems and prerequisites > would be for the above? > I think that once we'll have a survey going we'll have some elements of discussion, and I'm sure that developers and the marketing team will discuss the input we'll have received. best, Charles. > > -- > David Nelson > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
