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From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 8 Oct 2011 05:27:56
Message: <4e90179c$1@news.povray.org>

On 07/10/2011 11:45 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/7/2011 7:36, Invisible wrote:
>> I'm fairly sure Office v2 had that. I may be wrong. Certainly Office 97
>> definitely had that. And that was, what, 14 years ago?
>
> Pretty sure they didn't have .NET integration,

No. But how is that useful?

> integration with SQL server,

I'm fairly sure Office 97 quite happily let you connect to any database 
with an ODBC driver. (That's kind of the whole point of ODBC.)

> or cooperative shared editting.

It's news to me that /any/ version of Office has that.

>> In fairness, I'm not aware of anything else that does what Outlook and
>> Exchange do.
>
> And that is why the world still runs Microsoft. :-)

Well, no, that's /one of/ the reasons...

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