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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 8 07:49:23 -0800 2006 ------- Any further news on this issue? The window of opportunity with regard to replacing MSOffice with OpenOffice is rapidly closing, and as soon as Office12 is released the opportunity will be missed for anything upto 5 years as far as my organisation is concerned. Whilst I admit that MS Office can quite easily be replaced with the equivalent applications within openoffice, the same cannot be said for Access, Access is the jewel in the crown of MS Office, and unfortunately OOBase doesn't come close enough, and my organisation will not go with a multiple application solution, when MS Office suits all. An example is that today I tried to accomplish the same task using MS Access, and OOBase, whereas the task using MS Access took literally about 2 minutes, I gave up with OO Base after a couple of hours. Here is what I attempted to accomplish. I have data in a dbase table I have other data in a MySQL table I want to reference the data from both datasources (not migrate or import the data) In the same MS Access file I can link to the dbase table, and also the MySQL table. I can also use this MS Access database file to also create new MySQL tables and also dbase tables based on queries run against both sets of data, where tables form each datasource are referenced in the same query. f I chose I could also easily add extra datasources from either additional MySQL databases, other Access daatbases, Oracle databases etc to the same MS Access file, and as such work seamlessly with multiple backend datasources in a single common environment. I cannot do this is OO Base, or if it can be done it is not as intuative or easy as it is in MS Access. Without this functioanlity, there is absolutely no way I'll be able to persuade my organisation to move to OpenOffice / Star Office. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
