Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Tell me it's not true

On 29/02/2012, Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de> wrote:
> Almost nothing has changed since then, except for fixing things that
> should have been working right from the start 9 years ago.
> The Base developers wasted too much time with useless wizards covering
> no more than 30% of the program's capabilities and with a "self
> contained database" document that is a caricature of a database (unsafe,
> unsecure, low featured and slow).
> Base is best when you ignore most of its tools and helpers relying
> entirely on your own skills and on the capabilities of the underlying
> database driver.

Interesting; suggests that base exists just to answer the question by
m$ fans: "where is the equivalent to acce$$?

Maybe base should be removed from LO entirely and a separate database
product be developed, perhaps able to include some aspects of the
"spreadsheet paradigm" to data manipulation.

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