Hi Andrew, Frank, and the silent readers, compatibility is a fine thing, but in the further development of base you should be aware of some important facts:
Am Mittwoch, den 28.09.2005, 10:05 +0200 schrieb Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany: > Since one major strength of MSA is the capability to create > database-driven applications (which don't look like databases at all), > the target audience of Base should (should! see below) be the > developers > of such applications - this in fact is my serious and deepest belief. You're right, creating database applications is not for the ordinary user, it wasn't before and still isn't after MSA appeared. Microsoft tries to compensate this issue by throwing in masses of "wizards" and samples to lower the barrier. This is worth a thought! > OOo Base 2.0 does not allow for this audience, for a number of > reasons, > of which you mentioned a lot: the "forms are text documents"-problem, > the missing macro capabilities, the immense complexity of (important > parts of) the API, and so on. > > For quite a while now, the OOo team (the Sun part of it, honestly) is > discussing what we (!) think should be the goals for post-2.0, and I > constantly argue that we should make Base a platform for application > development, exactly for the "applications" targeted at the groups of > 3 to 9 users you're mentioning. There are many concurrent database creating applications, some are already dead, other aren't. Many of them are still in use because they do their task. If you ask people that know more than MSA they can tell you the pros and cons in comparison. I think base should do better in general, take the best of *all* worlds not only one, please. Copying only the look and feel of MSA leads to making the same mistakes. In my opinion a database app should be easy to use and understand, however this goal is reached. Running after Microsoft is a race that never can be won. Regards, Marc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
