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OpenOffice.org 2.0, the open-source office suite sponsored by Sun Microsystems Inc., is getting closer to reality.
The latest prebeta edition, OpenOffice.org Snapshot Build 1.9.m65 (680_m65), is feature-complete and reveals an office suite that includes a personal DBMS (database management system) and improved Microsoft Office file compatibility.
While StarOffice—OpenOffice's commercial, closed-source brother—has long had a database, Software AG's ADABAS D relational DBMS, OpenOffice has not had one.
Microsoft Office, with which OpenOffice is often compared, comes with the Access database. Starting with 2.0, however, OpenOffice will include the open-source HSQL database engine.
HSQL is a Java-based database. It is an SQL (structured query language) DBMS engine that's also designed for use with JDBC (Java DataBase Connect). As such, it's a database designer tool, not an office-worker tool.
To make HSQL useful to office-users, OpenOffice 2.0 will include a user-friendly front end, OpenOffice Base. With this, users can access existing dBASE, Microsoft Access and MySQL databases, among others. It also can be used to create databases. OpenOffice Base also includes easy-to-use report, form and query creation wizards.
I realize this may not be exciting news to many of you, but I'm looking forward to seeing this software released; my warezed installation of Office 2003 is corrupt, so I need a new word processor AND personal database system
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It's been forever since I've tried Open Office... what turned me off from it the first time was the interface for some of the applications.
Hope this 2.0 is an excellent release, the Database Manager intrigues me the most, and it'll make my ColdFusion development a lot easier to practice at home (though MySQL isn't exactly a pain in the butt )
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Tak wrote: Hopefully this database thing will be better than Access. I hate Access.
Access is ok for testing purposes, though the databases it creates are very, very crappy
However, my work depends on Access to interact with our Microsoft SQL databases so all the less computer-literate people can still interact with the customer and product databases. They're having me write a web-interface so we won't need access, but that's a long way down on my list of projects to do
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Tak wrote: Woah… I would hate to depend on Access. Get to work on that Web interface, Sintekk!
Yer such a slave driver, tak
Right now, it's about number 4 on my list of projects to work on. First, I'm doing a product feedback system, then I'm redoing a sister company's website with another person, then I'm working on a marketing email system. THEN I can redo the web interface
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