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

Thanks, Jaroslaw,

Your ideal solution is a bit over my head at this time, but I do 
appreciate it and will hang onto it for future reference.

Thanks again for your time and attention.

mike

On 10/08/2014 07:21 AM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> 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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