To Rod and all: What you do not seem to realize is the reason people use Linux is to get away from MSFT and its bugs, so it does mean learning something a bit different.
That's fine. But does that have to mean using a chain-saw to skin a cat when a bowie knife is the right tool?
Besides, this has nothing to do with Windows vs. Linux. Most of the users of OOo from all reports use Windows anyway. (And FWIW, open-source sw has plenty of bugs, too. That's where all those entries in all those bugzilla databases come from.)
Hardly a day goes by (certainly not a week) that there isn't a post from someone wanting to know if OOo includes an Access-like database. There's a reason for that. For what it's designed to do, Access is a pretty good tool. It's usable literally out-of-the-box. That's not to say it doesn't have shortcomings, not least of which is that it comes from Redmond, but there isn't a lot out there that competes directly with it. I'm very much hoping that the embedded database component in OOo 2.0 can measure up in those same terms.
Accomplishing the same thing with MySQL through ODBC requires a level of tech competence that I believe is simply beyond a significant fraction of the potential users. Everybody has their own threshold. My threshold is that I can operate, set-up, and configure computer hardware and software, but I can't program worth spit. I find StarBasic to be hopelessly confusing.
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