Free Range Office Apps

I think I've stabilized my data warehouse.  On the plus side I'm using standard tools with specified behaviors.  The not-quite-as-happy news is that at least one of the tools currently has issues:  OpenOffice.org.

OOo shows up because I've connected OOo's Base as the client to a MySQL server (yes, I am using a single laptop as both a client and a server).  OOo's Base seemed like a good option for dealing with manual data entry and generating reports, and via the excellent ODBC connector extension it was stupidly simple to get Base talking to MySQL.  MySQL seems rock solid, and the simple SQL i/o I needed had a short learning curve.  SQL scripts aren't too bad either. Oh and MySQL_Workbench gets honorable mention for initial setup.

However!  OpenOffice, with no extra effort on my part, appears to be leaking memory.  It's easy enough to shut it down and restart occasionally but OOo is hardly the M$Orifice Killer that the Linux fanboys would have me believe.  Here I've doubled its real memory usage just by opening and closing some stuff.  I've seen 500Mb, worst case.  Not enough of a hassle force me back to "Random" Access, but troublesome.  More to come.

- nzvyyx