Wednesday, April 30, 2008
OpenOffice [sarcasm] “Great” [/sarcasm] choice of Database Engine. Or was it?
It seems that in the world of software, the proprietary software gets hits pretty badly by the Open Source Software (OSS) environment these days. For example, take MS-Office (costing hundreds of dollars) versus the free (as in $0) Open Source OpenOffice.org (OO.o). OO.o is “almost” perfect: why did the developers used the sluggish HSQL for their native Base application database engine ??? Why not use SQLite, a most efficient and lighting fast database engine?
