Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Open .accdb in--or convert to--.odb in LibreOffice Base?

On 8 October 2014 12:08, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi :)
> I think Alex and Werner are giving good answers but you'll need to find
> some way of temporarily borrowing a Windows machine in order to help.
>
> Access is part of the whole vendor lock-in thing that MS seems to do so
> well.  They don't seem to want to make it easy for people to use other
> products to read their stuff as that seems to ensure that people 'have to'
> keep buying into their products.
>
> Once people DO start using non-MS alternatives they tend to find it easy to
> move between a variety of different programs and tools quite easily.  They
> also tend to never go back to MS tools because MS tools just aren't as safe
> and reliable and don't perform so well either.
>
> So, MS seems to have to create as many blockers as possible to avoid people
> just quickly trying out alternatives.  They can't seem to compete on
> quality or in "fair markets"

+1

BTW, This is also why Kexi does not use Windows-only ADO, which (as
many believe) would be another variant of the lock-in.
mdbtools is used exclusively, under the mask.

Ideal solution would be to start and maintain a port of Jackcess to
C/C++ to avoid Java, even greater if this was independent project, not
a part of LO or Kexi.

-- 
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