On 8 October 2014 12:08, Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi :) > I think Alex and Werner are giving good answers but you'll need to find > some way of temporarily borrowing a Windows machine in order to help. > > Access is part of the whole vendor lock-in thing that MS seems to do so > well. They don't seem to want to make it easy for people to use other > products to read their stuff as that seems to ensure that people 'have to' > keep buying into their products. > > Once people DO start using non-MS alternatives they tend to find it easy to > move between a variety of different programs and tools quite easily. They > also tend to never go back to MS tools because MS tools just aren't as safe > and reliable and don't perform so well either. > > So, MS seems to have to create as many blockers as possible to avoid people > just quickly trying out alternatives. They can't seem to compete on > quality or in "fair markets"
+1 BTW, This is also why Kexi does not use Windows-only ADO, which (as many believe) would be another variant of the lock-in. mdbtools is used exclusively, under the mask. Ideal solution would be to start and maintain a port of Jackcess to C/C++ to avoid Java, even greater if this was independent project, not a part of LO or Kexi. -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database applications creator tool - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
