OpenOffice and Oracle

Is OpenOffice will be dropped by Oracle?
what the best alternative Office application?
sorry about my english...

Read this.
OpenOffice is free, Oracle OpenOffice is not, but you don't have to buy Oracle OO if the regular one suits you fine.
And here you have Koffice mentioned. :-)

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I have the Oracle Rdb Driver v3.0.2 installed on a Windows client and a User DSN connection established in the ODBC Data Source Administrator control panel applet. I can query successfully with clients like MSQuery, Excel (with the SQLREQUEST() array function), and my terminal emulator (SmarTerm 9) which comes with built-in SQL functions. However, with OpenOffice 1.0 and 1.0.1, which comes with a query builder similar to MSQuery, I cannot get a proper list of available tables once the connection is made to the remote database.
There are 3 log files on the client which offer some clues, but it is not clear (to me) whether the Oracle driver is faulty, or it's OpenOffice that's the problem. Buried in two of the logs are SELECT statements which appear to pass invalid SQL syntax to the database, causing it to return no table names.
The first log is generated by the ODBC Data Source Administrator itself when Tracing is enabled. It's name is SQL.LOG by default. The other two logs are CLIENT.LOG and RDBODBC.LOG, generated by SQL/Services and the driver, respectively. The first, SQL.LOG, contains the following lines at the point where OpenOffice is requesting the list of tables:
scalc fff01057-fff017d7     ENTER SQLTablesW
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          WCHAR * 0x00000000
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          WCHAR * 0x0323FFE8 [      -3] "%"
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scalc fff01057-fff017d7     EXIT SQLTablesW with return code 0 (SQL_SUCCESS)
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          WCHAR * 0x00000000
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          WCHAR * 0x00000000
          SWORD 0
          WCHAR * 0x0323FFE8 [      -3] "%"
          SWORD -3
          WCHAR * 0x0314067C [      -3] "VIEW,TA"
          SWORD -3
The second log, produced by SQL/Services on the client, shows that the '%' wildcard has been changed to '% '. Here's the SQLTablesW call in that log:
ROUTINE LEVEL LOG at 11:19:43 on 07-Sep-2002
----SQLSRV_PREPARE
--------SQL STATEMENT
------------len: 233, value: SELECT '',rdb$flags,rdb$relation_name,rdb$system_fl
------------ag,'' FROM rdb$relations WHERE rdb$system_flag=0 AND rdb$relation_na
------------me LIKE '% ' ESCAPE '&' ORDER BY rdb$sy
------------stem_flag DESC,rdb$flags ASC,rdb$relation_name
PROTOCOL LEVEL LOG CLIENT: write (logonly) at 11:19:43 on 07-Sep-2002
----PACKET LENGTH: 245
PROTOCOL LEVEL LOG CLIENT: write (logonly) at 11:19:43 on 07-Sep-2002
----PACKET ID: 3, PACKET SEQUENCE: 0
--------SQLSRV_PREPARE
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-------------------- rdb$relation_name LIKE '% ' ES
--------------------CAPE '&' ORDER BY rdb$system_flag DESC,rdb$flags ASC,rdb$rel
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.0X00700138: SELECT '',rdb$flags,rdb$relation_name,rdb$system_flag,'' F
.ROM rdb$relations WHERE rdb$system_flag=0 AND rdb$relation_name LIKE '
.% ' ESCAPE '&' ORDER BY rdb$system_flag D
.ESC,rdb$flags ASC,rdb$relation_name
I'm no ODBC developer, but perhaps someone can suggest why the spaces are being added?
Thanks,
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Unfortunately RDB and Oracle are two completely different animals, so I'm really out of my element.
My wild, uninformed, shot-in-the-dark guess is that this has something to do with Unicode. When Unicode data is encoded as UCS-2 (Windows default encoding), ASCII characters are stored in two bytes, [ACSII value][00]. The ODBC Driver Manager is supposed to know whether a driver supports Unicode and to translate Unicode data passed through it to ASCII if that's what the driver needs. Perhaps the translation isn't happening properly here...
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I have seen that Oracle has given openoffice to the Apache foundation. One question I have is if the libreoffice fork still necessary. It was my understanding that Oracle prevented good development of openoffice and claim too much control. But now? What's the main reason to keep to have two versions?

olive wrote:
Lone_Wolf wrote:Apache Openoffice appears to target enterprise and business users, while libreoffice focuses more on individual users.
They also use different licenses, so i doubt the 2 will merge again.
You may be right but I can't prevent me to think that this is sad. How business users can be so different to individual users in regards of an office suite? (M$ sell basically the same office suite to both clients, apart some differences that do not justify a new product). As for the license, do we really need two projects for that? The LGPL as well as the apache license allows proprietary linking...
I wonder if Linux distributions (and archlinux in particular) will now ship openoffice again. I thought after the fork that Libreoffice will have been just the continuation of openoffice while openoffice itself will die (recalling the Xorg fork of Xfree86). But now? We can't just say that the Apache foundation do everything wrong as we may have said with Oracle.
The distros didn't all ship with OpenOffice before; Ubuntu and OpenSuSE both shipped with go-openoffice. Anyway, the OpenOffice brand took a pretty big hit, so I don't see any distros switching back.
As far as licensing is concerned, Microsoft does make different versions of Office - Student, Professional, etc., targeting different segments. Feature segregation won't really apply here, so I am also not sure I buy the enterprise-consumer split either.

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>
1. Report output should be in Excel Format. ( Is this possible without XML Publisher using 10g Reports only )
>
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>
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>
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I don't wanna use the geometry column in my report but because of this error i can't use the whole table. Is there a way to avoid this error and still use the other columns of the table. Or maybe there is another way to connect to an Oracle database which can handle this special data type.
 
 
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Jens Keller

Hi Jens,
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