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I've worked with OO.o Base for about 3 weeks (in parallel as I studied Microsoft's db.) No comparison. On a scale of one to ten I would give it a 2. Sun and company added it as an afterthought and because the default backend database was Java driven. You can't do simple things like reorder data fields. After creating them left to right they are locked in place, etc... I could see someone recommending MySQL or PostgreSQL. You can add a front-end (phpmyadmin or pgadmin3) find more documentation and get more done. Being able to connect to multiple databases using the OO.o base front-end but only having a subset of features operational w/each database is no reason to use it.

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