On 1/10/09, jonathon <[email protected]> wrote: > .... > > 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. not just corporate America, but coporates everwhere!
Therein lies the nub of why OOBase must improve it's act if the OOo suite is to make real market share headway against the MS Office suite. The comments made around this argument, generally from a technical standpoint, are absolutely valid. MS Access or rather its Jet Engine DBMS is crap when compared to a real RDBMS (SQLite, MySql, Postgres etc etc etc) However what these commentators fail to recognise is that the GUI end of MS Access provides a wealth of easy and graceful functionality for (empowered) lay people to build their own database apps to meet their personal working requirements. IMHO OOBase makes a great start on providing a GUI that lay people MIGHT use to front end to a decent RDBMS, BUT as long as it doesn't provide smooth paths for lay users to move between pages, select from lists with multiple columns and so on then OOBase will fail to make the contribution it should to the wider campaign for the OOo Suite to gain real market acceptance. If it continues to fail to help lay users through the GUI functionality issues they are accustomed to using in Access without resorting to programming, then OOBase will handicap the entire OOo effort. -- Mike Moller Lallybroch Alpacas New Zealand www.lallybroch.co.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
