What I like about this idea is that it frees it up to be picked up by
anyone who wants to take it and run with it, and THAT just might work.
I do fear for what it might do with people who need an integrated solution.
t.
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Tom Cloyd / [email protected] / (435) 272-3332
On 07/30/2011 06:41 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
It might be time to cut Base loose. Most versions of MS Office don't include
Access. Gnome Office doesn't have a database program. Perhaps Office Suites
just don't need an integrated program to do this sort of stuff. Maybe Calc is
enough. There are a few alternatives on the market for people that really need
a database. To move forwards Base needs a serious commitment and a strong
vision of where it wants to get to. If we cut it loose then LibreOffice as a
whole is freed from a lot of dependencies and stuff that the other apps don't
need. So, lets just drop Base.
Regards from
Tom :)
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From: Andreas Säger<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 9:41:30
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base record access unacceptably slow
Am 29.07.2011 03:22, NoOp wrote:
Hit F4 in Writer or Calc, right-click>Open the dBase "Bibliography".
All the functionality of a flat (unrelational) dBase connection is
there. You can connect, query, edit data through forms and dump any row
set into office documents.
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/system-requirements/
<quote>
For certain features of the software - but not most - Java is required.
Java is notably required for Base.
</quote>
As a matter of fact you can disable/remove Java, hit F4 ... connect,
query, edit and dump.
If I would convert our Java databases and remove Java from our systems
nobody would notice the change.
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