Hi guys,
Have been discussing what it would take to write an "SDBC" driver for
connecting StarOffice/OpenOffice to PostgreSQL with Frank Schönheit, a
senior member of the Sun StarOffice/OpenOffice DBA team, and a few
senior members of the OpenOffice project.
SDBC is based largely on ODBC, so it might be more a matter of porting
the existing ODBC stuff rather than a complete re-write. Frank reckons
it would take about 2 man weeks of total effort if needed to be written
from scratch, so it's probably not going to be too hard for an
experienced C++ & PostgreSQL coder.
Would anyone be interested in getting involved in doing this? If
anyone's up for it, the Sun StarOffice/OpenOffice DBA team in Hamburg
Germany will be available for support etc.
Getting an SDBC driver written to connect Star/OpenOffice and PostgreSQL
is very good step towards integrating PostgreSQL support further into
Star/OpenOffice.
:-)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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