Tim Deaton wrote:
> jonathon wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 08:38, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
>>
>>
>>> If you are "trying to use Base to run my whole business", I'd
>>> recommend not to create an embedded database (i.e. the data is
>>> stored inside an OOo Base file), but to use a RDBMS like MySQL or
>>> PostgreSQL, and Base as a front-end.
>>>
>>
>> The suitablity of Base for running one's business, depends upon what
>> that business is.
>>
>>
>>> The same is valid if you are using MS Access: no serious person
>>> would suggest you to create a MS Access database for any business use
>>>
>>
>> MS Access is so embedded in corporate America, that Microsoft can't
>> EOL it. The SOHO market is not the only one that embraced it.
>>
>> jonathon
>>
> If the developers of Base feel as Ariel does, there is no point in
> even HAVING Base in OOo. I've never had the opportunity to work with
> MySQL or PostgreSQL, so I know nothing about how 'easy' or not they
> are to work in. But Access was built (at least in part) for the
> desktop user who didn't have a responsive IT department (or ANY IT
> department) to depend on.
>
> I'm not a programmer. I'm a bookkeeper. For 24 years I worked in a
> very small company, and if I had waited for our one IT guy to develop
> what we needed in Foxpro, most of it would never have happened. I
> needed a relational database that was easy enough to learn and work in
> that I could get systems written and online working on it just 2 or 3
> days a month. Foxpro didn't cut it. Access97 did, and that's the
> market that I believe OOo Base belongs in.
>
> Maybe Access is flakey when dealing with millions of records. I
> wouldn't know. All I ever dealt with was thousands, and for our
> purposes it did well. If OOo Base can do as well in that kind of
> market, then it will be very useful. If it is designed only with the
> professional database programmer in mind, then it will be a failure.
>
> And if HSQLDB is so poor that you can't use Base for serious work
> without also getting & learning MySQL, then perhaps the next major
> push for OOo Base needs to be replacing HSQLDB with MySQL.
Or maybe add some of the MySQL engines???
I think that would be quite nice for variety of users and keep the OOo
set of applications light to download etc.....
> -- Tim Deaton
>
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