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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Database for OpenOffice
From:       Louis Suarez-Potts <luispo () mac ! com>
Date:       2002-03-15 22:03:39
Message-ID: B8B7AFBB.A92D%luispo () mac ! com
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on 3/15/02 2:01 PM, Greg Miller at gmiller@santaplus.com wrote:

> After reading through several parts of the OpenOffice site, it appears that
> OpenOffice is not going to include the Adabas database engine in its work
> (due to copyrights of Software AG).  Has anyone checked into using SAPDB in
> the OpenOffice distro?  SAPDB was originally Adabas code that SAP purchased
> from Software AG and then open sourced.  I am only a meager VB programmer
> and have no idea if my assumptions are correct, but I assume that SAPDB
> should be able to "plug in" to the existing StarOffice framework.  I have
> noticed that most of the file names in SAPDB are the same file names
> contained in the StarOffice 5.2 distro.  This should greatly simplify the
> process of adding a database to OpenOffice.  SAPDB also has ODBC, JDBC,
> Perl, Python, and PHP (and XML, I think) drivers built into it already.
> This should be a perfect match that would give OpenOffice an
> "Enterprise-Class" database built into the product with minimal
> retrofitting.
> 
> Has anyone mentioned this before?  Are there any agreements with Sun or
> Sun's partners that would prevent this from being a feasable plan?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> Greg Miller
> Network Administrator
> EIS Eastman Kodak
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