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------- Additional comments from bobhar...@openoffice.org Sat Oct 24 08:10:07 +0000 2009 ------- I have been reading the comments, and there is something remarkable about it all, that might make it worth forking this matter. The real-life examples given are all about data lists, not calculation. The world has, for want of a better application, used spreadsheets to handle what should be in databases. None of these, presumably, require hyperbolic trig functions or regression (for example) The WP-spreadhseet-graphic-database paradigm for integrated suites appears to be fundamentally unaltered since the 1980s and 1-2-3. If huge tranches of computing users are bending the purpose of the spreadsheet to do something they cannot otherwise do, then perhaps it is time to invent something else. We no longer use steam engines on railways, so why are we still using a mathematical tool to sort and display data? It is, at the very least, a damning indictment of database applications. But it is also an opportunity to come up with a new type of application that does what people actually want to do. Why can't Mr Steelhoof's clients open the list in Base? what does it /not/ do that they can do in a spreadsheet? And, therefore, Why does Base not do that? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: issues-unsubscr...@sc.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sc.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
