> As I recall, at the time of the release of OpenOffice2, it had to be > like Access
Braindead. > - but of course, as Sun was mainly running the show, that > meant that it had to be multi-OS, thus Java based Bullshit. There are plenty of cross-platform RDBMSes that are not implemented in this grotesque proprietary abomination that Java is. > and a fairly "simple", "drop-in" piece of code with an appropriate > licence. One would do well to remember that at the time, the internal > Sun Base development team only comprised about 3 members of staff > working full-time on the project, thus resources were painfully > limited. Just yet another argument in favor of just providing a driver for a client-server RDBMS. 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
