OpenOffice 2.0

[Thomas Kaiser]

Hello Werne

The decision of the openoffice team can be seen here:
http://dba.openoffice.org/miscellaneous/dba20.html

Regards, Thomas

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 22:47 +0100, Werner Punz wrote:
> Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> 
> > think the new database component is built on Java.
> > 
> You are right, OpenOffice usese HypersonicSQL a database which
> basically originally was developed as a plain java solution
> which can be embedded into other java apps.
> It is not the worst database out there (although also not the best, 
> which still in my opinion is postgresql, giving the huge variety of OSS 
> databases)
> 
> Why they chose hypersonic over others still is somewhat a miracle to me, 
> does not really fit to the project itself.
> HSQL would be the typical choice for having an embedded DB in a java 
> server, but under this circumstances postgres or firebird definitely 
> would have been more suitable.
> 
> 
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