| Subject | Re: [Firebird-general] The 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards have begun |
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| Author | steve summers |
| Post date | 2003-11-17T20:10:10Z |
A vaguely related aside:
I was just browsing the OpenOffice site yesterday, and
read that they are planning a separate "Database
application" (analogous to MS Access) for version 2.
It's obviously going to need some kind of "engine",
analogous to Jet (unless they're happy with the
address book level database engine in there now!)
Wouldn't it be FANTASTIC if that underlying engine
were Firebird? I think it would be perfect, for the
following reasons:
1. Runs on the same platforms- Windows, Linux,
Solaris, and more.
2. It's small, especially the embedded version. All
that would need to be distributed is the embedded dll,
the security.fdb file (maybe that can be made
unnecessary for simple apps?), and a readme explaining
how to download and install the full version when
multi-user access is needed.
3. It is reasonably simple to deploy and use, but
extremely powerful for those who need it.
4. There are no "you have to pay for it if you sell a
product that uses it" like MySQL has. That would
affect prevent MySQL's inclusion with the StarOffice
version.
Am I nuts, or should we lobby for this???
--- marius popa <mapopa@...> wrote:
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I was just browsing the OpenOffice site yesterday, and
read that they are planning a separate "Database
application" (analogous to MS Access) for version 2.
It's obviously going to need some kind of "engine",
analogous to Jet (unless they're happy with the
address book level database engine in there now!)
Wouldn't it be FANTASTIC if that underlying engine
were Firebird? I think it would be perfect, for the
following reasons:
1. Runs on the same platforms- Windows, Linux,
Solaris, and more.
2. It's small, especially the embedded version. All
that would need to be distributed is the embedded dll,
the security.fdb file (maybe that can be made
unnecessary for simple apps?), and a readme explaining
how to download and install the full version when
multi-user access is needed.
3. It is reasonably simple to deploy and use, but
extremely powerful for those who need it.
4. There are no "you have to pay for it if you sell a
product that uses it" like MySQL has. That would
affect prevent MySQL's inclusion with the StarOffice
version.
Am I nuts, or should we lobby for this???
--- marius popa <mapopa@...> wrote:
> First we have to request firebird to be included inhttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?threadid=116431
> the list of the oss
> databases and then to vote for it :)
>
>
> The 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
> have begun
> That right - the 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members
> Choice Awards have
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> early this year as you
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> 15th. This is so that we
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