A quote from Michael Meeks daily blog entry: Having said that, clearly a load of work is needed on Base, in particular > I'd love to see (and most of the code is there) a nice migration wizard > (using a remote/ODBC connection of course) from Access to MySQL (or anything > else) using the OO.o front-end - with the VBA work from Novell, and > extracting the forms etc. that would be highly sweet.
A couple of questions come to mind: ( rhetorical I am afraid ) Is Novell willing to put a few ( even one ) engineer on the Base project full time? Well, I suppose there really is only one question, isn't there. On Jan 16, 2008 8:55 AM, Frank Schönheit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This doesn't strictly belong into here, but it might nonetheless be > interesting to some of you, so let me point you to it: > > > http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/investor/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2008jan16_mysql_learn > > And no, please don't ask me what this means for OpenOffice.org Base, > which, as you know, is ATM exclusively staffed with Sun-paid engineers. > I don't know by now. (Though my guess would be the direct influence on > Base is rather low.) > > Ciao > Frank > > -- > Frank Schönheit StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Base > [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 40 23 646 663 / +66663 > Sun Microsystems Germany Hamburg, Nagelsweg 55 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
