| [News] Star Office for Amiga? Maybe. | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 18-Jul-2000 16:31 GMT by Gabriele Favrin | 16 comments
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Sun announced today that the sources of their business software suite
"Star Office" will be released under a GPL licence. Who will port them
for first?
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| Comment 1 | Scott Konowal | | 17-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 2 | The Great One | | 17-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT |
| Comment 3 | greenboy | | 17-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT |
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| Star Office for Amiga? Maybe. : Comment 4 of 16 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by kevin orme on 17-Jul-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (greenboy):
The idea behind porting MySQL to the Amiga wasn't to waste people's time but to provide more choice to those who likely won't move on to the new platform (or at least will wait until there is a decent selection of software available for it, hopefully including backwards compatible emulation of old stuff).
Naturally, porting things like GIMP, StarOffice, etc. are far more complicated and may not be worth the time nor effort when done (why not just buy Lightwave/Imagine or Final Writer/Wordworth). But then again, if the classic Amiga didn't have a lot of life left in it (really!), we wouldn't even be discussing it now would we?
MySQL was chosen so as to provide another SQL-based database on the Amiga. We don't have illusions that we're taking on Oracle or IBM with it (although a big Unix shop that used it might set up a far bigger implementation). MySQL is a great database, is open source and should be made available to Amiga users, too. With the exceptions of PostGre SQL and mSQL, there aren't any others on the Amiga (other databases don't support SQL) and this is yet another 'standard' that Amiga users shouldn't have to endure criticism for not being able to use.
Kevin Orme
amiga university
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