Re: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC

2005-05-11 Thread Don Kibbey
I really doubt IBM's lack of effort with this project had anything to do with some sort of agreement with Micro$ft. IBM has always known a thing or two about lawyers. In fact the pet name for IBM's lawyers in the trade is the Nazgul from the LOTR series. If you'd like to see just how effective

Re: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC

2005-05-11 Thread Ian Stuart
I have no doubt IBM are really committed to Open Source solutions and defiinitely did not imply that there was colusion between the Microsoft and IBM. It makes no sense to distance oneself from Microsoft. What I do believe is that as far as U2 development is concerned it has been expedient

RE: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC

2005-05-11 Thread Bjorn Behr
Does anybody have examples, documentation on using the JDBC Driver in Open Office? Many Thanks Bjorn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Stuart Sent: 10 May 2005 09:25 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100

RE: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC

2005-05-11 Thread Wendy Smoak
Ian Stuart wrote: Compare this to OOo response: After being elated about the success of the JDBC patch in OOo I found a problem updating tables via JDBC, so I posted an issue. Not 1 hour later I get a meaningful response along these lines: This isn't anything specific to OpenOffice, it

{Virus?} Re: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC

2005-05-11 Thread Ian Stuart
Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed Warning: (OpenOffice.org Base.lnk). Warning: Please read the VirusWarning.txt attachment(s) for more information. That's the point; one sometime feels completely helpless in the face of large corporations and the disinterested,

{Virus?} Re: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC

2005-05-11 Thread Hanwell, David
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Stuart Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:38 PM EDT To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: {Virus?} Re: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC

[U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC

2005-05-10 Thread Ian Stuart
For anybody who is interested OpenOffice.org have made changes to support some of the anomolies in the UniVerse JDBC driver. This now means that those users wanting to deploy Linux on the desktop either as a thin-client or full installation can use a very functional end-user database and

RE: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC

2005-05-10 Thread Scott Ballinger
] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:05 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] OpenOffice.org 1.9.100 and UniVerse JDBC Billy Gates daddy is/was a lawyer with a high powered Washington DC law offices. Those lawyers wrote most of the verbage that Billy had IBM sign