Microsoft Access vs. OpenOffice Base?
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Topic: Microsoft Access vs. OpenOffice Base?
Posted By: davidshq
Subject: Microsoft Access vs. OpenOffice Base?
Date Posted: 24 February 2005 at 6:07pm
I've been using OpenOffice 1.0 for quite some time now. Mainly for its
spreadsheeting and word processing capabilities. In fact, OpenOffice,
Win32Pad, and WordPad have become my foundational text editors (OO 1.0
opened too slow to be worth doing everything in, so I still used
WordPad for note-taking, etc.). Anyways, with the near release of 2.0
comes OpenOffice Base, a database application. I've been trying it out
using the latest snapshot. It seems pretty good. It can open (and I
believe) write to a variety of formats including Access, MySQL, ADO,
ODBC, JDBC, dBASE etc. What I'm wondering is the possibility it will
become a replacement for those needing a good front-end GUI for
designing db's rather than Access. Perhaps even scripts like Web Wiz
Guide's? My questions are:
1. What would keep anyone for adopting this open standard based off of free software?
2. One can connect to the OO Base database as easily as Access as long as it uses the usual ADO/JDBC/ODBC protocols?
David.
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Posted By: wolfie
Date Posted: 25 April 2005 at 7:07pm
I've been wondering about the connectivity from say a ASP page using
such protocols. I quite like the idea of not having to dip into a lot
of money to purchase MS Office suite.
OpenOffice.org seems to be a great app with none of the Microsoft bulk!
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Posted By: davidshq
Date Posted: 25 April 2005 at 7:16pm
I've been using the 2.0 beta codeline for some time now. I actually
just downloaded 1.9.95. The Base application is pretty sweet in my
unprofessional opinion (I haven't worked with database enough). Sadly,
the ODB format at this time does not appear to be ODBC/JDBC/ADO
compliant, however since the Base program can access other databases
that are, it seems like the move shouldn't be too hard.
Also, I've put in a request for the addition of ODBC/JDBC compatability for the ODB format.
David.
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