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Posted to commits@openoffice.apache.org by sm...@apache.org on 2013/10/19 06:14:26 UTC
svn commit: r1533690 - /openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/product/base.mdtext
Author: smansour
Date: Sat Oct 19 04:14:26 2013
New Revision: 1533690
URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1533690
Log:
Reviewed and changed language
Modified:
openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/product/base.mdtext
Modified: openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/product/base.mdtext
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/product/base.mdtext?rev=1533690&r1=1533689&r2=1533690&view=diff
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--- openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/product/base.mdtext (original)
+++ openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/product/base.mdtext Sat Oct 19 04:14:26 2013
@@ -19,39 +19,37 @@ Notice: Licensed to the Apache Softwa
[](/product/pix/base-big.png "Click for bigger version") # {.rfloatimg}
**Base** is a fully featured desktop database management system, designed to
-meet the needs of a broad array of users, from
+meet the needs of a broad array of users, from tracking a personal CD collections,
+to producing a corporate monthly departmental sales reports.
- - just tracking your personal CD collection, to
- - producing a corporate monthly departmental sales report.
-
-**Base** offers wizards to help users new to database design (or just new to
-**Base**) to create Tables, Queries, Forms and Reports, along with a set of
+Base offers wizards to help users new to database design (or Base)
+to create Tables, Queries, Forms and Reports, along with a set of
predefined table definitions for tracking Assets, Customers, Sales Orders,
Invoices and much more.
-When a personal use database is all you need, **Base** offers the full HSQL
+When a personal use database is all you need, Base offers the full HSQL
relational database engine, configured for single user, with the data stored
-right in the **Base** file, as well as native support for dBase flat files.
+right in the Base file, as well as native support for dBase flat files.
-For power users in the enterprise, **Base** delivers native support drivers for
+For power users in the enterprise, Base delivers native support drivers for
a variety of multi-user database engines: MySQL, Adabas D, MS Access and
PostgreSQL. In addition, support for JDBC and ODBC standard drivers allows you
-to connect to virtually any existing database.
+to connect to virtually any database.
-**Base** integrates seamlessly into the rest of the Apache OpenOffice suite
+Base integrates seamlessly into the rest of the Apache OpenOffice suite
applications, for example:
- - supplying address book data for mail merge in WRITER using the industry
+ - Supplying address book data for mail merge in Writer using the industry
standard LDAP protocol, or common address book formats such as Microsoft
Outlook, Microsoft Windows and Mozilla;
- - creating linked data ranges in CALC files for data pilot analysis or as the
+ - Creating linked data ranges in Calc files for data pilot analysis or as the
basis for charts.
-For more information on working with **Base**, please see the
+For more information on working with Base, please see the
[Apache OpenOffice Wiki Database][1] pages.
-For technical information, or to help make **Base** even better, stop by the
-[**Base** project page][2].
+For technical information, or to help make Base even better, stop by the
+[Base project page][2].
[1]: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/database
[2]: http://dba.openoffice.org/