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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Nobody Ever Lay On Their Deathbed Thinking ...
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 21:39:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:47:47 -0500, DFS wrote:

> Plus it's slow (at least on Windows).

Maybe the fault lies with Windows?

>  Plus LO Basic is pure crap.

s/LO Basic/Basic/

> Plus LO Base is a sad joke.

It offers much more advanced DBMS functionality than Microsoft Access can 
match.

> Plus the form and report designers are bogus.

What can Office do that they can’t?

> Plus LO has no email component.

Remember, Microsoft dates from the time when email was very much a vendor-
proprietary function. The idea of being able to send messages between 
machines on different LANs was still new and exotic, or just plain fantasy 
to some.