I hope that some of you will try it and give some feedback to both OOo and Firebird. for people who are not computer literate, but at the same time, there is no need to "re-invent the wheel" with another database since one is already available (OpenSource GPL that is). The installation and setup needs to be streamlined with a GUI etc. Since there have been so many complaints and requests for better database capabilites with OOo, I would like to see and work together and integrate the two together. There are a great many open source and/or freeware tools (as well as commercial) available for Firebird.Even with Access 2000 where you have a stripped down SQL databaase of 2Gb max size, Firebird still has greater capabilities. You also have client/server capabilities as with Postgresql and MySQL that far exceeds the client-file database of Access.Otherwise use the transportable backup and restore. A Firebird database is portable, that is, you can copy the database to another computer and operate on it (Intel architectures).Firebird was the easiest install both Windows and Linux, but the most difficult to interface to OOo.Firebird (InterBase) is the most mature of the three databases. MySQL does not have stored views or queries and will not have for at least a year or so.
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