On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> My ordered preference would be 1, 3 yeah, great *sarcasm*, let's add another bullet point to a microsoft presentation titled 'how Microsoft Office is better than OpenOfffice.org".... OO.o lacks database? check!" My opinion is that maybe Sun put HSQLDB in there to fill in the need for a resident database engine, which in the commercial offering (StarOffice) was filled by Adabas D. One can still read the positive reviews of StarOffice where the database module is praised: http://www.amazon.com/Sun-Microsystems-0614647643195-StarOffice-7/dp/B0000DG2N4 //// * StarOffice Adabas (database application) is included (getting MS Access requires buying MS Office Pro) and is easier to use than MS Access. Adabas integrates with other StarOffice apps so, for instance, users can easily create mail merge documents. /// So, if HSQLDB is not up to par, maybe the realistic solution is to find a database engine lightweight and powerful enough to take the role that Adabas D had in StarOffice?. FC PS: I read this whole thread as 'we don't want to maintain this code, since we don't understand it, and we fear it's buggy'. But the solution in any case is replacing the database module for another, or improving the existing code, not making excuses for saying 'people don't use databases after all so it should be gone'.
