Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: base error - no SDBC drive

Hi :)
Similarly DocX promises to be cross-platform and able to be used by any
relevant program.  So did Rtf.  Whenever these things are in the hands of
single profit-making companies they don't seem to live up to promises or
expectations.  Ownership through a committee of a large number of
profit-making companies and others seems to make things more stable as long
as it's possible to pull any errant company back in-line if it fails to
implement it as per agreements.
Regards from
Tom :)




On 19 July 2014 12:50, Jim Seymour <jseymour@linxnet.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:16:49 +0100
> Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Oddly i still see a LOT of job adverts for programmers who can
> > write Java. I'm hoping that is to help companies migrate away or to
> > re-write existing java packages!
> [snip]
>
> How sad :(
>
> Java had such great promise.  Java was *supposed* to be immune to all
> this.  Instead, due to the realities of market pressures and the
> scourge of poor design and coding, Java has become at least as bad a
> word in the I.T. community as ActiveX -- possibly worse.
>
> Plus it's a PITA to code in, has horrible load times, and "write
> once, run anywhere" never did become fully real.
>
> It was bad enough under Sun.  Now that Oracle owns it, I think it's
> doomed.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
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