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Subject:    Re: knoda as database tool for koffice?
From:       lucijan busch <lucijan () gmx ! at>
Date:       2002-05-08 16:28:25
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Hi!

I guess a database application for koffice is quite cool (and a lot of people 
asked for it)
Its also nice because you could keep kspread for tables, kword for reports and 
so on...
But i'm against using mysql (at least directly) because i think in a office 
application users have to be able to move documents (and also databases) on 
disks and use them (so a front end does not enough -- my opinion)
but writing a engine is realy hard and needless (why did mysql need over 4 
years)
we have to find a solution wich let us take an existing engine and have real 
files (so server/client related isn't very good)

cu
lucijan

On Wednesday 08 May 2002 17:40, Warwick Chapman wrote:
> Howdy
>
> Your question demands another question.  Is the KOffice suite of
> applications, like any other Office suite worth anything, trying to
> eat away a little at MS Office's share?
>
> If the answer is yes, then a database utility is surely a necessary
> competitor to MS Access.  Maybe only include it is KOffice
> "Professional" or something like that.
>
> Budgee
>
> On 8 May 2002, at 17:26, Werner Trobin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 May 2002 17:13, Olaf Stetzer wrote:
> > > Hello koffice developers!
> > >
> > > since I work a lot with mysql previosly I have looked
> > > around for database-tools available for kde. I have found a very
> > > promising app on apps.kde.com called knoda (knoda.sourceforge.net)
> > >
> > > Since there is no such tool integrated in koffice I would like to
> > > point your attention to this program and maybe you consider it for
> > > integration in koffice? Since knoda supports forms and reports it may
> > > be an interesting option in koffice (integration with kparts ...).
> >
> > Just my opinion: KOffice is about documents. This is the reason KMail is
> > not in KOffice, neither KOrganizer. I'm not sure whether a database
> > belongs to KOffice. I know that kdatabase has been imported, but I still
> > wonder why.
> >
> > Who wants to embed a "database" in a KOffice document? If it's just about
> > embedding the other way round (say, use KWord for the reports) it's no
> > problem to achive that with plain KParts, right? If your report generator
> > creates KWord documents you can even embed reports inside KOffice
> > documents, no need to have such an application inside KOffice...
> >
> > Disclaimer: This is my humble opinion.
> >
> > Please enlighten me why kdatabase is in KOffice :-)
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Werner
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