MS makes yet another smart move 1717

Ray Ingles

Not that they can't, they won't. Unless, maybe just maybe, it offers close to 100% interoperability. OO.o isn't there yet.

It's not the category of software that matters, it's the feature bloat. Both MS and Linux-OSS are guilty of such. Anyway, I don't consider it an issue. Doesn't hurt me if the new version of Access or KDevelop has 20 new little features I won't ever use.

I saw that. Thanks for the link.

But if you dig a bit deeper, you'll find out it's probably not going to happen. The Hypersonic SQLdb project is way behind, and most likely won't meet the OO.o 2.0 release date. And from what I've seen, it will be a fairly rudimentary engine (when I last checked, you couldn't alter a column Development Status).

Still, it's the most interesting part of OO.o to me, and I'll probably contribute some serious testing and bug reports.

I'd have to agree with you. The Linux-OSS tool alternatives for most of the work I do - in Access-Oracle-SQL Server - are probably Glade-PostGreSQL-MySQL. While they're not up to the Windows-closed source standards, it's my belief they're good enough for the smallish systems I build. But my clients run Windows and MS Office on their desktops. And they have for nearly 10 years. I doubt they'll ever switch.

Those "equivalents" often aren't nearly that.

Ray, I didn't shut up. I just can't answer every post directed to me.

Not true. There was nothing as good as Windows 3.0 and 3.1 at the time.

And that's really all anyone needs.

Yes I do. Do you remember not too long ago 38,000 servers running an OSS program called openBB (or something like that) were hit with a benign attack?

Recently they announced a division that will target supercomputers, I believe.

And it seems people want to support the monopoly - even 10 years on.

That's what personal laptops and notebooks running Windows are for.