Moving Further Down The Opensource Path ...

[Linuxyeti]

Hi All

Some recent testing. The database functionality has been tested with LibreOffice 4.1.3 on bith Linux and Windows , and has been proven to work successfully.

Also, another, quite big step, The database has been tested with MariaDB replacing the MySQL database. Generally it has worked well.

On Linux, it was simply a case of removing the MySQL server, and then installing the MariaDB server and client.

The running mysql_upgrade

And that was that.

On Windows, a bit more work was required, no surprise there...

Again, removed MySQL Server etc

Installed MariaDB

Set the path to the data directory in my.ini (available from the start menu in the MariaDB folder)

Modifed the Windows path setting to include C:\Program Files\MariaDB 10.0\bin

Then ran mysql_upgrade

And finally the database were ready for use.

Next I will be working on the jdbc driver, although the MySQL one works perfectly, and is released under an open source license.

Finally, the database has been tested using the openjdk jave install, again the open source version of java.

Cheers

Tony