Quoting Michael Thompson (michael at linuxsolves.com):
[OpenOffice.org as a database-access tool:]
> Having said that I have had some trouble getting it to talk to a MySQL
> server.
I have some files linked from
http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Apps/OpenOffice.org/ that will probably help.
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