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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Article about OOo/KOffice/OASIS database
From:       Frank Schönheit <fs () openoffice ! org>
Date:       2004-07-15 13:32:26
Message-ID: cd60q5$132$2 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Hi Brad,

> The original problem was one of file-exchange. It seems unlikely that we can 
> get Microsoft to change the the native file format, and there will also be 
> resistance to changing OO.o.

See my reply to Jarosław on this ...

> I think that there are really two options - a vendor neutral format, or 
> accepting MDB as a de-facto standard.

The latter is no option at all. This would make the OSS world dependent
on a proprietary format which we need to re-engineer again and again ...
MS would probably *love* this.

Ciao
Frank

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