Support HSQLDB!
While OOo development is funded by its sponsors, HSQLDB is an independent project run by individuals and receives no external funding. The integration with OpenOffice.org has so far required several unpaid man-months of extra work by the maintainer and lead developer of the HSQLDB project. There are still features that remain to be done.
At present (14 February 2005) there is a lot of work that needed to be done "yesterday" in HSQLDB. This is over and above the work undertaken by OOo developers in the front end. Unless immediate funding becomes available, this core engine work will be postponed, resulting in less-than-wholehearted acceptance and not-so-glowing reviews when OOo 2.00 is released.
Sunday, February 27, 2005
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