Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO

Hi :)
+1 
re: Base.  It's potential is awesome and even as it is now it can do some pretty amazing things 
easily that Access makes difficult but even so Access seems to be easier for most normal uses.  

I'm not sure about the Macro languages but LO/OOo seems to offer a choice of 4 languages, none of 
which have been successfully used for malware out in the wild even at the low percentage you would 
expect given market share but maybe that might change in the future, i'm not sure.  

Hmm, my point about compatibility was badly made.  Forwards compatibility is always likely to be a 
problem but MSO seems to have problems with sideways (different version of Windows) and backwards 
compatibility, at least according to their installer's notes for MSO 2010.  

Regards from
Tom :)

--- On Sun, 15/4/12, ptoye <LO@ptoye.com> wrote:

From: ptoye <LO@ptoye.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems importing an OO database into LO
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 15 April, 2012, 14:34

Glad to hear it. But IMHO Base is just nowhere compared  to Access (which itself isn't much to 
shout about). And OO Basic compared to VBA similarly.  

As an ex-programmer I'm always keen to automate any process, but the OO Basic learning curve turns 
many people off (as far as I can see from bulletin board comments - even this one) before they even 
start.

Agreed that MS have problems in forwards compatibility. But that's an impossible dream. Can OO 
version 1 open OO version 3 documents?

Unfortunately I'm too short of time to contribute to OO/LO development - I suspect there's another 
2-year learning curve.

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