The weird thing is that Java is havely used in the Oracle databases. How com they can have quite reliable databases...
Op 5 aug. 2014, om 15:35 heeft Tom Davies het volgende geschreven: > Hi :) > +1 > > I think Base nearly does do the best way around. The only problem is that > the easiest thing, the embedded database, is currently dangerously broken. > The devs appear to be addressing that although, obviously, they can't fix > the whole thing all at one go. The first step seems reasonably well chosen > to get the main bulk away from java. > > I'm sure Java didn't used to be so awful. It seems to have nose-dived > since Oracle took over but maybe that is preparation for monetising it and > that is a reasonable thing for a profit-making company to want to do. > > It's like the story of the scorpion and the fox crossing a river. The > scorpion stings the fox and as they both sink the fox asks why. The > scorpion replies that it's his nature to sting and he can't help it. So > can we really blame a profit-making company from attempting to subvert a > free product it owns in order to later be able to sell an "enterprise" or > "professional" version? > > It's a shame openJava can't escape and gather a huge community as > LibreOffice did back when OpenOffice was owned by Oracle. > > > Base currently allows users to start of by using an internal back-end and > then move it to an external tool when they are ready. [shrugs] Seems a > good plan to me. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > On 5 August 2014 13:33, Jon Harringdon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Wolfgang Keller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> So I come back to my suggestion earlier today - LO Base needs to give >>>> the user the opportunity to specify what they want - RAM or file >>>> based, single file or multiple files. >>> >>> That would only confuse most end users. >> >> Hear, hear. >> >>> The point is that the developers should make the most reasonable >>> choice >> >> This mindset will not help LO broaden its user base. Users (even if most >> are apparently deemed stupid by some) should be in the driving seat and >> not some anonymous "developers". >> >> Pip Coburn writes this about the tech industry: "I believe that users >> are always in charge and that supply is a necessary but not sufficient >> condition for commercial success. Companies and products geared toward >> this holistic user orientation will succeed at far greater rates than >> those stuck in a supplier-oriented mind-set." As far as I'm concerned >> that hits the nail squarely on the head. >> >> And as to confusing users with complex choices... a well-designed system >> can be simple for simple needs and complex for complex needs. >> >> One-size-fits-all rarely fits anyone. >> >> IMHO etc. >> >> Jon >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> > > -- > 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 -- 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
