Hi Alex, The immediate implications are (read further before you shout me): It stays at it currenty is.
An important thing to know is that the recent developer snapshot, and unfortunately also the Beta, do not mark the current state of the art in this respect. We have a CWS which fixed quite a lot of issues, which unfortunately didn't make it into Beta anymore. While I definately wish it would have been otherwise, that's the sad truth (and I am very well aware of the negative feedback this might give us). Every issue which is still open then, and serious enough (and we take crashes very serious, no matter in which frequency they appear), will be fixed before the final release. If they are on OOo side, we will fix them. If they are on HSQLDB side, I have founded hope that Fred will fix them, or assist us in fixing them, even if he will not spend all his time to the integration project. It's true that without Fred's help, we will not be able to offer additional desirable features. However, I am absolutely confident that we are still able to offer a working (and still feature-rich!) solution, which can be used for daily work. Note that we never expected to produce an MS Access killer with the first shot - not even our marketing should be *that* afflicted with illusions :). Finally, we need challenges for post-2.0, don't we? ;-) So, in short I believe that independent from the result of the call, OpenOffice.org Base 2.0 will ship with a viable solution. > Please don't take my comments as an offense, they are not intended to > be. Your team has done great work so far integrating HSLQDB into OOo, > even if I disagreed with the choice, but I am not known for mincing my > words. No problem at all, I always appreciate serious and objective feedback. Ciao Frank -- - Frank Sch�nheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://www.sun.com - - OpenOffice.org Database Access http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
