From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:03:50 -0500, DFS wrote:   
      
   > On 1/28/2026 2:12 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> Let’s see you use Microsoft Office to match that.   
   >   
   > eh? Access has been ODBC-connective since 1993. I built lots of   
   > corporate Access apps using Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata and DB2   
   > backends. Not only that, but you could connect as many different   
   > backends as you wanted to an Access frontend.   
      
   So why didn’t you think to use it, then?   
      
   > Not to mention the superior Object Model underpinning MS Office, or   
   > the far superior form and report designers and VBA scripting   
   > language.   
      
   So why didn’t you use VBA to do your little programming exercise? Why   
   did you have to use Python, and run it on Linux via WSL2, at that?   
   Windows and Office no longer good enough for you?   
      
   > LO just can't compete.   
      
   And yet you never thought of using your wonderful Microsoft Office to   
   solve this problem?   
      
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