Re: sun acquires MySQL

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 11:40:15 AM -0700, Robin Laing
(Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

As one discussion that I read, this could be a great move. MySQL
could be integrated into OpenOffice instead of base. Could be real
competition to MS Office as a full suite.

Only if it is packaged to package everything in a database (data,
queries, whatever) in single files which can be exchanged without
problems with users of OOO of other platforms and/or other FOSS
suites, no?

I explained in detail the use case I refer to at
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7800

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