SCO v. IBM redux

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, May 15, 2007, Collins Richey wrote:
>On 5/15/07, Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a substitute for ms office automation/scripting? Isn't this
>> pretty important to businesses? (maybe only in the u.s.)
>>
>
>The biggest obstacles to replacement of M$Office with OO are the
>woefully inadequate scripting abilities and the (related) xcel macros
>that don't have an equivalent. Hopefully that will change, since every
>OO release seems to incorporate better M$ compatibility.

These same scripting abilities are often used as the vectors to compromise
Windows machines as they are allowed to do things that probably should
require a bit of thought -- something that Microsoft isn't big on
supporting.

Some folks I know who are heavy Microsoft Office users are very unhappy
with the new user interface for Office.  In addition to it's being very
different from the old UI, apparently MS has made it difficult to customize
the interface for personal prefereneces.

I've run into an obstacle working with OO in that I can't get subscribed to
their mailing lists.  Their stupid MLM insists on digging deep into
Received: headers to try to subscribe me using an internal address, totally
unrelated to the Reply-To: or From: headers that I used specifically to
subcribe.

The latest release version of OO (2.2) for Mac OS X barfs when attempting
to connect to mysql databases using the JDBC connector from mysql.  It sees
the database, and the connection tests OK, but OO-calc dies as soon as it
attempts a query.  This connection has been working for years, although
OO-2.1 has had a tendency to crash after a query if I don't save before
switching sheets.

Bill
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