Open Office Base
Integrates seamlessly with other open office applications such as address book data for a mail merge in writer or linked data ranges for calc.
Open office base. Base in essence acts as a gui for external databases such as mysql postgresql and oracle. The openoffice base software is a database creation and management engine thus the name. Openoffice included a word processor writer a spreadsheet calc a presentation application impress a drawing application draw a formula editor math and a database.
It is described in the chapter apache openoffice basic of the developer s guide. Base offers predefined tables for tracking assets customers sales orders and invoices and more templates can be added through extensions. Base is a fully featured desktop database management system designed to meet the needs of a broad array of users from tracking a personal cd collections to producing a corporate monthly departmental sales reports.