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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Common database for OO.o and KOffice
From:       Marco Fioretti <mfioretti () mclink ! it>
Date:       2004-09-29 9:54:02
Message-ID: 1.0.2.200409291153.91162 () mclink ! it
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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


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