On 2014-08-05 06:02:12, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > > 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 > >
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