From koffice Wed Sep 29 09:54:02 2004 From: Marco Fioretti Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:54:02 +0000 To: koffice Subject: Re: Common database for OO.o and KOffice Message-Id: <1.0.2.200409291153.91162 () mclink ! it> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice&m=109645164820503 Brad wrote: > On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 12:28 pm, M. Fioretti wrote: > > An article on how to share simple SQL databases between the > > two office suites, and possibly many more other programs: > It doesn't seem to show how - more seems to be a "what if" concept. > Do you have an implementation plan? You are right to say that the article is more a "what if" concept. My main concern was to point out, as some reader wrote in the article-related forum, "a major small business weakness in the open source desktop". As far as OO.o users are concerned, whatever OS they run, the plan is simply to use the drivers and resources mentioned in the article. When it comes to KOffice, it should be possible to share the actual SQLite databases without implementing or installing anything else, since KOffice, through Kexi, can already open them. The missing piece is how to exchange, or reuse, the forms, reports and queries. My opinion on this is what I wrote in the article (see the part where I wrote "Initially, the choice seemed to me to be already made, even if not all the interested parties had realized it yet."). So, my "KOffice implementation plan" (more exactly, what I *hope* will happen) is that the KOffice feature request I introduced is voted and worked on: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90392 . keep in mind that there are a lot of public administrations that are switching to OpenOffice.org. KOffice has many advantages over OO.o, starting from better integration with a *nix/kde system, and being quite faster, that is better for older computers. But its adoption can be severely limited if it cannot *directly* exchange with OO.o all the kinds of "data" that the users of MS Office/Access are used to. Ciao, Marco ____________________________________ koffice mailing list koffice@mail.kde.org To unsubscribe please visit: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice