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| DATE | 2003-02-05 |
| FROM | Kevin Mark
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] This is so funny it is sad..
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After skimming over this doc, I must say that something like this is LONG
OVER DUE. And the OOo people needed to make the DB stuff visible from the
beginning!!!!
thanks for the info!
-K
RG had this to say about "Re: [hangout] This is so funny it
is sad..":
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> On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 03:09, Ruben I Safir wrote:
> > Database Manager
> > Company Information
> > http://www.workingfamiliesparty.org
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> [snip]
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> > community
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> > computer savvy
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> > progressive
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> > Microsoft Access experience a plus,
>
> ??????!!!!!
>
> 'Access' your data - OpenOffice.org 1.0's best kept secret
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> 'Access' for Linux?
> The launch of OpenOffice.org 1.0 in 2002 removed at a stroke one major
> obstacle to the universal use of Linux on the desktop. At last, Linux
> users have office software - word processor, spreadsheet, graphics, and
> presentation - which not only works at least as well as the Microsoft
> Office equivalent, but can also use Microsoft Office file formats, and
> is genuinely open source.
>
> However, this hasn't prevented objections from Microsoft diehards that
> they still can't migrate to Linux, because "Linux hasn't anything like
> Microsoft Access". Well, have I got news for you. It has, and it's
> called OpenOffice.org 1.0. One of the hidden secrets of OpenOffice.org
> 1.0 is that it also has a great user-friendly database front end. All
> you need to do is wire it up to one of the many open-source databases on
> Linux, and you have a Microsoft Access (and more) equivalent.
>
> This document explains how to make this connection, and then provides a
> quick tour of the database tools within OpenOffice.org 1.0. Many
> hardened OpenOffice.org 1.0 users are completely unaware of what is
> hiding under the covers, and are amazed once they start playing with the
> 'hidden' tools.
>
> http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf
>
> - Ron
>
>
>
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