One of the features some users overlook in OpenOffice.org is its built-in programming language, OpenOffice.org Basic. Why would you want a programming language built into your word processor? It’s there to help you to automate tasks. It won’t make the tea for you, but it will help you to carry out many repetitive jobs with a minimum of effort.
But Marathon Bars are called Snickers in the UK now too 😉
A start, but it doesn’t let me type a script in Notepad to open an Excel sheet, parse all the cells and do a bucket sort comparison on post codes and write two XML spreadsheets with the results before updating an ODBC database and then send an AJAX request to fire a server initiated backup.
ActiveX on the non-browser side is unsurpassed in many ways.
For some reason, I swear that I have seen an office suite with some sort of BASIC in it before, but that can’t be possible, as OpenOffice.org would never copy a feature from existing programs.
Copy the biggest design flaw in Microsfot Office as far as security goes. Multi-platform Basic macro viruses are now a possibility.
It has been this way for a very long time.
The design flaw is not using BASIC for scripting.
The flaw is to use the same language for system scripting, closely integrated with the browser.
Most security issues in Windows can be traced back to the IE integration. Such an integration does not exists between system and OOo so there is no security threat.
Let’s not leave out ActiveX controls that take insecure or even hostile actions without user approval or notification or things like allowing user level activities to impact system level infrastructure.
Oh, never mind those can’t be copied can they?
The professionals have to use a mature, stable, and feature rich tool like Microsoft Office.
Open Source does not know how to integrate the various parts of the business software – from spreadsheets to wordprocessors to presentation software.
Open Source does not know how to integrate the various parts of the business software – from spreadsheets to wordprocessors to presentation software.
Well then it’s about time we teach this Mr. Open Source guy a lesson!
The professionals have to use a mature, stable, and feature rich tool like Microsoft Office.
Open Source does not know how to integrate the various parts of the business software – from spreadsheets to wordprocessors to presentation software.
Oh, you want this…
http://udk.openoffice.org
…in addition to or in place of OOo Basic.
Let me know if this doesn’t meet your needs.
The professionals have to use a mature, stable, and feature rich tool like Microsoft Office.
Open Source does not know how to integrate the various parts of the business software – from spreadsheets to wordprocessors to presentation software.
Low level astroturfer – what do you do sweep the floors at Redmond
The professionals uses office-independent business software. If you want you can export your reports to excel, but the office systems and enterprise information systems are different things.
That would’ve been teh r0x0rz.