Re: And now what?

Fernand Vanrie wrote:
> Andreas ,
> 
> Your proposal is maybe a bit to drastic,  but OO can, indeed, been a 
> ideal frontend for any DB, included a Oracle Base :-), I hope they reed 
> this dispared crys and gives us some exctra developer power.
> 

Yes, reduce Base to a better frontend.
Drop that embedded caricature of a database backend.
It is slow, unsafe (too many reports about data loss), insecure (no 
permissions) because behaves like an extension. It installs itself 
before you can use it and it gets repackaged when you "close the 
document". May be it was the most efficient way to accomplish what the 
crowd shouted for (back in 2005) and certainly it was a nice toy for 
educational purposes but now let it rest in peace.
If all the other pieces would work more consistently (simpler rather 
than easier!) it could be a big improvement with less software to maintain.
Just leave the job to create a relational database up to the 
professionals and power users with their own tools for the respective 
database backend. There is no need for a table designer or relation 
editor in a mere frontend tool.