Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie
Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:33:37PM +0000, Antony Gelberg wrote:
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> [OpenOffice.org's new database-front-end capabilities]
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>>I'd still like to know what, in business terms if you like, you can do
>>with this, that you cannot do with e.g. LAMP.
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> It's a weird question. There's nothing there you can't do with dBASE III,
> either, or COBOL on an IBM System/370.
It's a fair question. What quantifiable difference will it make to
anything, apart from being a new toy to play with?
> What the Access-like features of OOo 2 let one do is create and manipulate
> and use databases WITHOUT SPENDING A LOT OF TIME LEARNING HOW.
Oh. A real killer app then. I have seen many databases over the years.
The worst designs have all been in Access.
I think users need to get back to learning a little. I was asked by a
customer yesterday why Thunderbird doesn't capitalise the H in Hello
like Outlook (Word) does. I was too speechless to suggest just typing
properly.
In fact most tools that I have seen that are designed to be operated
with no knowledge of the subject, produce inferior output.
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