Subject: Re: Abisuite database
From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Sat Aug 25 2001 - 10:29:23 CDT
Looks like I was too anxious to send that -- fixing some "typos" (edited
the quoted material):
Randy Kramer wrote:
> You are right, but the original plan for Abi was to eventually become an
> office suite. Currently that seems way off in the future. Also, to
> some extent Abi is adopting / being adopted by GNOME, which already has
> Gnumeric as a spreadsheet. Still Gnumeric is not cross platform. I think
> sooner or later office suites will be built with a paradigm of a central database.
> It will be sooner only if a new group of developers
> materializes.
> Nevertheless, if users put some effort into defining what
> they'd like to have, especially if it is along the lines of a "new
> paradigm" which might excite developer's and others at the thought of
> taking the lead in office suite development, the developers may
> materialize sooner than we think.
>
> I am sure that sooner or later, a central database (or more than one)
> will be the paradigm for an office suite, and it will deal with both
> structured and free format data. Will it occur 50 years from now or
> sooner? Will it occur before or after keyboard input is replaced (or
> almost replaced) by voice recognition (or human-machine telepathy
> (wireless links) ;-)? I don't know, but I'm sure it will happen.
>
> Randy Kramer
>
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