Re: A call for review
Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny <[email protected]>
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Good Morning Marc, > No offence intended, don't read me saying "anything from Microsoft is > bad". We just both agreed (me thinks) that *only* copying from MS might not be the ... optimal strategy. > Do you have any measure on what users are trying to do with base? Maybe > some grouping in simple users, database app developers and so on can > clearify the needs to get the goals hit one by one ... That's exactly the problem. There are a lot of different requirements to Base from different user/groups - much more than we can ever reasonably fulfill. One of those requirements is MSA compatibility/migration (which surely is a long-term task). And currently, it seems the group requiring this is considered the most important (potential) client of OOo/Base. Personally, I believe that concentrating on the "application creation platform" use cases (which largely intersect with the above MSA interop/migration use cases) would be highly worth the efforts, and should be focused for the next release. Thanks & Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [email protected] - - Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/staroffice - - OpenOffice.org Database http://dba.openoffice.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -