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List:       openoffice-discuss
Subject:    Re: [discuss] Database for OpenOffice
From:       Sam Hiser <swhiser () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-03-16 3:00:45
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Glad Louis sent this to Discuss.

Just one thought...
 
> 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.

This certainly sounds interesting, although I cannot answer the
feasibility question.

Light database or heavy MS Access users were the individuals at
LinuxWorld who looked most crestfallen upon hearing that Adabas is out
of OOo; HOWEVER, my general feeling was that, overall, people
appreciated that having a database in OOo was kind of redundant because
(apart from Windows crowd...some significant magnitude of OOo users,
actually) the Unix OOo user will tend to have access to an industrial
strength database, if not solid knowledge of how to use it.  So the
sensible notion seemed to be, "Let's just have a database GUI or
interface that's ported to whatever people like (MySQL, Postgres,
whathaveyou)"

> > Has anyone mentioned this before?  Are there any agreements with Sun or
> > Sun's partners that would prevent this from being a feasable plan?

Why dont you pursue this, Greg.  A quick check/search of the Discuss
archive will give you a good sense of past discussions of database.

Sam Hiser

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