Hi, Thomas Walter wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 14:42, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > > Does openoffice.org's database package really need Java? Can it work > > > with just unixodbc? > > > > You can use it with MySQL etc of course with unixodbc. but the internal > > engine is hsqldb. which is Java. That's why it depends on Java, most > > "normal" users would want the internal db... > > > I can't believe your last statement about the internal db. > The big advantage in using of a db is to access the data from any > applications either to read or to add info in a uniq place and not to > create another db for any application. Don't tell that me.. I agree with you. I just said that many "DAU"s just don't care about external dbs and so. like the M$ Access people. Which Base was intended for from Sun. And since the internal stuff uses hsqldb which is Java the package depends on *some* Java. For users which simply want to install -base and then might wonder why it doesn't work.. Regards, Rene
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