> Average end-user is challenged enough just installing an O/S and > productivity suite, and learning how to use them, much less a real > RDBMS.
PostgreSQL is pretty foolproof to install and use. I know what I am talking about since I am the reference fool. It may be something different if you need to maintain it for running a huge database that gets a serious load of queries and transactions and needs to be fault-tolerant, accessible from the "public" Internet etc. But for "home" or "small business" use cases it's really simple. > Plus: MS Office (Pro) has one, so LibréOffice and relatives > have to have one. Access is a dangerous heap of junk. I know of Access users who get their database corrupted roughly every four weeks on average. > Yes: Such tools should never, ever be used for anything very > important. Base looks and feels like a perfectly credible "CRUD" and reporting frontend for a database. It's just the choice of an embedded database for storage that's a mistery for me. At best, it's useless to include HSQL. At worst, it might discredit LO as a whole. Sincerely, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
