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Re: Fwd: data pilot

 

Interetesting .... with a release candidate coming in just one week:
2009-12-17

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Looks like 3.2 is the "performance" targetted version.  [
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features]  Including DataPilot.
>
>
> 2009/12/11 Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Sure.  This is just a background issue.  The OOo pivot table performance
>> has been a mess for some time now.  Just want to take advantage of the
>> opportunity to feed them some real requirements.
>>
>> Mind you I see IBM's Chinese dev team have been putting some work into
>> this already (
>> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Calc/Proposal_DataPilot_byIBM).
>> I wonder did this optimisation make itself into OOo yet?  I guess we'll find
>> out soon.
>>
>> Bob.
>>
>> 2009/12/11 Ola Hodne Titlestad <olatitle@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>> Can give you a data pilot (for the latest version of OO) with lots of
>>> data by Monday.
>>> Would that be soon enough?
>>>
>>> Ola
>>> _______
>>>
>>> 2009/12/11 Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> I am in touch with Sun engineers on OpenOffice Calc regarding datapilot
>>>> performance.  I understand there have been performance issues with pivot
>>>> tables - in fact it is a well known openoffice problem.  Can anyone send me
>>>> a reasonably substantive excel worksheet with pivot tables which I can send
>>>> to Sun to see if we can't motivate improvement of openoffice calc in this
>>>> area.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Date: 2009/12/11
>>>> Subject: Re: data pilot
>>>> To: ASLAM RAFFEE <Aslam.Raffee@xxxxxxx>
>>>> Cc: Jørn Braa <jornbraa@xxxxxxxxx>, Stephan Schaefer <
>>>> Stephan.Schaefer@xxxxxxx>, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 -
>>>> Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@xxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sure.  Thanks.  I will try and get hold a realistic sample from the
>>>> field rather than a concoction.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Bob
>>>>
>>>> 2009/12/11 ASLAM RAFFEE <Aslam.Raffee@xxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>> Bob,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you provide Stephan the information needed so that he can assist.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Aslam Raffee,
>>>>> Government Strategy and Global Communities, EMEA
>>>>> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>>>>> Waterfall Edge, Waterfall Park, Bekker Street
>>>>> Midrand 1685 South Africa
>>>>> Phone +27 11 256-6360
>>>>> Mobile +27 82 312 6782
>>>>> Email aslam.raffee@xxxxxxx
>>>>> http://www.sun.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11 Dec 2009, at 2:42 PM, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 -
>>>>> Hamburg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > Hi Aslam,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I have set Stephan Schäfer on copy who leads our OOo Calc team.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Of cause we may have a look at the problem. But we need to know the
>>>>> version of OOo that is in use and one ore more sample documents that don't
>>>>> work as expected.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Best regards
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Michael
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Am 11.12.09 10:44, ASLAM RAFFEE schrieb:
>>>>> >> Dear Michael,
>>>>> >> I am in discussions with Bob Jolliffe of the Health Information
>>>>> Systems Project (http://www.hisp.org/) on how Sun can add value to
>>>>> this project. One of the issues that has come up is that the project would
>>>>> like to use open office and ODF. Due to Data pilot performance issues (keeps
>>>>> crashing) they are forced to use excel pivot tables. Are we able to look
>>>>> into this problem and assist with the data pilot issues.
>>>>> >> Regards,
>>>>> >> Aslam Raffee,
>>>>> >> Government Strategy and Global Communities, EMEA
>>>>> >> Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>>>>> >> Waterfall Edge, Waterfall Park, Bekker Street
>>>>> >> Midrand 1685 South Africa
>>>>> >> Phone +27 11 256-6360
>>>>> >> Mobile +27 82 312 6782
>>>>> >> Email aslam.raffee@xxxxxxx
>>>>> >> http://www.sun.com
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
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