There's An ooBase?
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| Author | Content |
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| Bob_Robertson Aug 27, 2006 10:56 AM EDT |
Neat. Learn something new ever day. |
| dcparris Aug 27, 2006 11:00 AM EDT |
It's an MS Access-styled DB. You can use the embedded HSQL engine, or connect to MySQL and PostgreSQL, etc. It just made my task a whole lot easier. :-) |
| Rascalson Aug 27, 2006 5:53 PM EDT |
Sooo, how is the weather under that rock Bob? :) |
| dcparris Aug 27, 2006 6:52 PM EDT |
>Sooo, how is the weather under that rock Bob? It *does* raise the question of which office suite you use, Bob. |
| Teron Aug 28, 2006 3:28 AM EDT |
Or, alternatively, he doesn't use a suite at all ;) |
| dcparris Aug 28, 2006 5:56 AM EDT |
I just thought he might be using the EMACS suite - complete with its word processing, IDE, e-mail/newsgroups, and calendar functionality. I'm not sure about the spreadsheet though. ;-) |
| Bob_Robertson Aug 28, 2006 7:16 AM EDT |
Hahaha! OpenOffice.org is installed, but I don't use anything other than spreadsheet and documents. Oh, and for displaying powerpoint slides that other people forward around the net. Since I have no use for a database program, I've never gone looking for one. The last database I utilized was FoxBase, running on Win3.1. |
| dcparris Aug 28, 2006 8:42 AM EDT |
:-) |
| jimf Aug 28, 2006 9:00 AM EDT |
Umm, OO... I've never been very happy with the Open Office suite. I think the interface sucks, and the bloat is amazing. I will say that the speed and load time have gotten much better, but I'd still love to 'dump the pig'... I once thought that koffice was going to amount to something, but that too seems to have gone off on a tangent. I review different apps at intervals to see how they're progressing, and although I like the KDE interface, lately I find that some of the GTK stuff is getting pretty darn good and quite usable in KDE. In particular abiword and gnumeric are coming along nicely with minimal bloat, maximum speed, a clean control interface, and, a lot of functionality. gnumeric definitely beats the other spreadsheets hands down. I think that these are going to end up being what I use on a day to day basis. As far as a Database, a combination of knoda and either sqlite, or, mysql is pretty hard to beat. If you haven't tried it, you should. |
| dcparris Aug 28, 2006 9:28 AM EDT |
I was planning on connecting OOo to PostgreSQL. I want to be able to easily import my data into an office document. I must confess, I wouldn't mind trying Knoda with PostGreSQL as a management tool. In fact, I've been pondering which tool I should use on my Ubuntu. |
| jimf Aug 28, 2006 9:47 AM EDT |
I know there is a PostgreSQL driver for knoda. |
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