Wine and Office

[Jim Cornette]

HoytDuff wrote:
> On Monday 25 August 2003 07:18 am, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>HoytDuff wrote:
>>
>>>On Sunday 24 August 2003 09:54 pm, Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>
>>>>Except for Access, what does Office do that Openoffice does not handle.
>>>
>>>OO can be configured to use mysql in an "Access" kind of way.
>>
>>I'll have to look into this feature then.
>>
>>Access is the only thing that Ms office can do that Openoffice does not
>>address. (work environment).
>>
>>If ooffice or some other user configurable database becomes available to
>>do lightweight database applications, there becomes my justification for
>>not needing MS OSes or programs at work. (Except for the two browser IE
>>exclusive programs, locally brewed, minor programs)
> 
> 
> Here's a link to a page with a brief description and a link for the PDF file 
> describing the process.
> 
> http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2460
> 
> Essentially, Star Office provides the Addabas database to provide this 
> function, but Addabas is not free. The "front-end" is there in, just not 
> configured. It would be nice if one of the third-party sources provided a 
> script to handle the configuration.
> 
> 

I tried addabas when Star Office just started offering a Linux based 
version. It was fairly crude and I didn't get much done with the program.

Having a third party database utilize the front-end for ooffice sounds 
like a great idea. Integrating it with the ooffice tools might work out 
really decent. Exporting tables into the spreadsheet and exporting 
reportts into the word proccessor would be valuable additions to the 
office program. Throw in email capability and it even sounds better.

I know it is a tough thing to get integrated with different developers 
working on different sectors of the project. It seems that the base of 
the integration would be to develop some sort of "Hub" program that 
translates one project into a compatibility stage with the other 
programs. (tables to spreadsheets, reports to documents, mailer to 
transport exported products in chosen output). I think that the finished 
product would work better than closed software, as long as the main 
interface was structured right in the beginning.

I was hoping that rhdb would fill in the lacking feature. hopefully in 
integration with ooffice or using lighter weight spreadsheet, word 
processors and mailers.

Now to try to integrate my-sql, (never used before) with the front-end 
for addabus. I doubt that it will be real productive, but will be 
interesting.

Jim


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