Le 26/03/13 00:39, Ariel Constenla-Haile a écrit : Hi all,
> This is hard too guess. The majority of AOO users are Windows users, so > you can asume that the "average user" that tries Base with a MS Office > background, is looking for something like MS Access. I guess this was > what drove Sun to create the ODB file with embedded db inside. With such > an expectation, no wonder this average user gets frustrated with Base. > Those who do use the embedded hsqldb ODB file format in France where I live, be it with OOo, AOO, or LO, tend to be mostly associations, clubs, individuals or other not-for-profit entities as it previously solved their problem of not having to fork out for Access and was cross-platform. This was certainly at least the case until Office 365 came out, for which I now see (this morning) that even the Family & Small Business version includes Access (for Windows only, but nonetheless interesting enough). So, it would be worth bearing in mind also that any choice to drop embedded database engine support would probably lead current ODB/ODF users to switch back to MSOffice - after all, if you can have Office 365 Family for 99 Euros and install it on up to 3 different Windows PCs, why go to the hassle of using AOO/LO/OOo ? As for businesses that use this embedded format in France, I wouldn't like to hazard a guess. Personally and professionally, I've only ever used StarOffice/OOo/AOO/LO to access an external data source / db engine / db server. Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
