On Thu, 13 May 2010 20:13:30 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>> I'd say that it's pretty much got feature parity (
>> 
>> Maybe for the features *you* use. I don't remember seeing how to get it
>> to talk COM to a SQL database so you can automate importing a chart
>> from Calc into Word based on a database query.
> 
> I might be wrong here, but... MS Office provides MS Access, which is a
> (low-powered) DB engine. IIRC, OpenOffice Calc isn't actually a DB
> engine, it is *only* a front-end. You still need to find a DB from
> somewhere, set it up and tell Calc how to talk to it.

You mean oobase, surely - oocalc is a spreadsheet.

But I do agree that oobase isn't the best piece of software - I've used 
it quite a bit for accessing things like Oracle tables, and the setup 
could be a lot smoother.  Supports ODBC and JDBC, though, so that's 
something.

Jim

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