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| Hi all, |
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| I've been on the LinuxWorld Expo in Frankfurt yesterday (which claims |
| to be the largest in Europe) and want to share some of my experiences |
| with you. |
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| First of all: OOo seems to be like a ghost to the people: everyone has |
| heard about it, noone has ever seen it. So the interest was large |
| whereever and whenever I talked about it. I invited more than hundered |
| people to visit the site, download the files and join us (well, I |
| simply took the microphone... ;-)). |
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| I could write a long mail here, but as the most is marketing stuff |
| (and marketing is strongly needed: e.g. gnome, kde, gimp, samba and |
| others had their own booth there and everyone knows them!) the long |
| post can be read in the archive of the marketing list. Let me just |
| tell you one thing: several large companies supporting Linux were |
| there, among them IBM, Siemens and HP. SUN was missing. No Java, no |
| StarOffice on the LWE. WHY? |
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| Well, to the more interesting things: |
| I was asked if OOo was interested in a small footprint multiuser |
| RDBMS. |
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| Xplatform? Yes. Filesize? One Floppy disk. Free? Not completly. |
| Hmmm... could this be interesting for us? |
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| Everyone can download it. If I understood the licence terms correctly, |
| you can use it for free on your own purposes. But if you want to |
| distribute it as part of a package you've got to pay. You find the |
| files and many info at |
| http://www.concept-asa.de (there is a link to the english pages in the |
| center) |
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| They support tcl, perl, php and other open standards, beside that also |
| ODBC. But they haven't opensourced their code yet. |
| The owner seemed to be unsure, if he should be willing to opensourse |
| it and spread db++ as part of OOo to put interest on his product(s) - |
| but on the other hand I think he lives from selling it, so it could be |
| his ruin. :-( |
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| What do you think about this? Interesting? Who should handle this? |
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| Best greetings |
| Uli</body> |
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