{"id":517,"date":"2003-01-19T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2003-01-19T12:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2003-01-19T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2003-01-19T12:23:16","slug":"so-much-for-the-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"so much for the nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"about OOo<\/a> being mainly a Unix tool, or even, in any important sense, a volunteer effort (in other words, one that is not dependent on Sun spending $5m a year or so on 100 full-time professional developers): one of the more important community figures posted this to the database developers list:
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SAPDB <\/span>is, unfortunately, simply too large for most OOo users. Don’t forget that 80% of our users run on Windows 95\/98\/ME … platforms that\nSAPDB <\/span>doesn’t support.<\/blockquote>\nIN other words, OOo is overwhelmingly used as a tool to extend the life of second-hand PCs. It must be horribly slow there. One would almost rather use it on linux.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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