Hi,

I think he has a point here. While being in norway I played with mysql
and wanted to use it from Konqueror and KOffice. But for a user the
installation of such a database is a horror.

I think that for the so called SOHO market a simple single user
database is exactly what people need.

BUTTH: Adressing such a database with a standard interface would
be even cooler since one could then just exchange the database
if the small one does not fit any more.

Bye
Torben


On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jason A. Reid wrote:

> 
> Yeah, I pretty much know everything that needs to be done
> with regards to a DB engine...that doesn't mean that I'll
> bang it out like lightning, because it's still a large
> undertaking, but I'm aware of the scope of the problem.
> 
> I believe that there is a place, however small it may be,
> for the type of lightweight, embeddable, single-user
> database that MS Access provides.  This especially holds
> true for a great many of the "everyday users" that
> KOffice and KDE in general try to appeal to...those people
> that don't have a DB2 or an Oracle Database running on
> their machine, but would simply like to make a catalog
> of their home video collection :)
> 
> For this reason, I believe that the inclusion of a DBMS
> fits better into the KOffice architecture than a
> front-end tool.  While front ends to ODBC databases
> are definitely features I wouldn't mind seeing in the
> final product, they're not where my focus lies.
> 
> ********************************
> *         Jason Reid           *
> *  Montclair State University  *
> *      Computer Science        *
> ******************************** 
> 
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Kai-Uwe Sattler wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > do you really want to implement a database engine ? This is much work
> > (buffer management, query processing etc.) and there are already good (and
> > free) database systems and of course there are Oracle, DB2, Informix etc.
> > In my opinion, a high level interface (in the spirit of the Microsoft DAO
> > or something else) on top of unixODBC would be easier to implement and fit
> > better into the KOffice architecture. So I could access my DB2 database
> > from KSpread and import the diagram into KIllustrator :-) 
> > Just a comment,
> > 	Kai
> > -- 
> > Kai-Uwe Sattler
> > E-Mail: kus@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de, k.sattler@computer.org
> > Homepage: http://wwwiti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~sattler/
> > 
> > 
> 
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