OpenOffice 2.0 is out today. I’ve installed it on Windows XP to do some basic comparisons to Microsoft Office 2003. One of the things I’m most excited about is the new Base program, basically a Microsoft Access clone. It is unfortunate that doesn’t natively support PostgreSQL, but it does support MySQL natively. So I’m playing with Base connecting to a PostgreSQL database via ODBC.
I’m hoping that Base is cross platform, it would be nice to have an easy to design front end tool for databases that could be used on Windows, Un*x and Mac OS X. This is assuming the native port gets done, running OO in X under Mac isn’t so great.
With any luck the new abilities of OpenOffice 2.0 will win over a few more converts at work.
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what about ms sql driver? is it part of OO 2.0 ?