Good Morning Marc,

> No offence intended, don't read me saying "anything from Microsoft is
> bad". 

We just both agreed (me thinks) that *only* copying from MS might not be
the ... optimal strategy.

> Do you have any measure on what users are trying to do with base? Maybe
> some grouping in simple users, database app developers and so on can
> clearify the needs to get the goals hit one by one ...

That's exactly the problem. There are a lot of different requirements to
Base from different user/groups - much more than we can ever reasonably
fulfill. One of those requirements is MSA compatibility/migration (which
surely is a long-term task). And currently, it seems the group requiring
this is considered the most important (potential) client of OOo/Base.

Personally, I believe that concentrating on the "application creation
platform" use cases (which largely intersect with the above MSA
interop/migration use cases) would be highly worth the efforts, and
should be focused for the next release.

Thanks & Ciao
Frank

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