[OPLINTECH] MS Software Assurance

[Chad Neeper (list)]

I don't know how comparable OOo Base is with Access yet, but I read
somewhere that it is now a primary development focus in the project. The
database component has been in OOo for a long time, but has been more in
the background. I believe they are now working more heavily on the Base
front-end.

FWIW, Base apparently isn't compatible with Access like Writer is with
Word or Calc is with Excel. However, that being said, I just read a OOo
Base news group post that says the data from an Access database can be
accessed from Base in Windows.

Chad

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Dan Will wrote:
> Hey Don,
>    Have you found anything to run access DBs in the open source world? I
> agree with you that OO.o works pretty well but, I use access a fair amount.
>
> Dan Will
> Technology Supervisor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org]On
> Behalf Of Don Yarman
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:33 AM
> To: OPLINTECH at oplin.org
> Subject: Re: [OPLINTECH] MS Software Assurance
>
>
> On 11/13/07, Josh Proffit <jproffit at newarklibrary.info> wrote:
>   
>> Has anyone seen this article?  Any thoughts about alternatives?
>>     
>
> When my office computer died this summer and was replaced,
> I elected not to install the old version of Office or to upgrade to
> the latest version.  Instead, I installed OpenOffice.  I've set the
> program to automatically use MS file extensions, and I've had
> no problems with sharing my documents with MS Office users.
>
> There are a few things that I like better about Excel over Calc.
> And the more interactive Word documents that have areas of forms
> to fill out make me nervous.
>
> Last month, we signed up with Google Apps for the delawarelibrary.org
> domain.  It includes Google spreadsheets, documents, and
> presentations.  Seems to work perfectly fine.  My only unhappiness
> concerns file sharing, but that's outside the scope of the discussion
> here.
>
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>                    Delaware County District Library
>                    84 E Winter St; Delaware OH 43015
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