From kde-devel  Tue May 04 13:03:28 1999
From: Peter Harvey <pharvey () codebydesign ! com>
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 13:03:28 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Next generation of KOrganizer / Call for help: (fwd)
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> Wait a few month and you will see Katabase. This will be a middleware to
> several database systems. Each database system will have it's own plugin to the
> general data access module. There will exist several modules for working:
> Formeditor, Reporteditor, ...
> We want to make it the KOffice-database system, because it should be very
> flexible.
>

Why develop a new spec and a new code base to do the same thing as ODBC? Sure,
create a form editor or whatever... but why not base it on ODBC?

Peter Harvey