Thank you for that link! I had been scratching my head about that server even though it wasn't mine to take care of (the other service I'm involved with here, that I helped plan, uses Postgres, which does not seem to have problems).
Open Office sucks compared to Microsoft office, I switch to Microsoft when I want to prepare a fancy office document, or open and edit docx files correctly. And secondly, to try if my application works correctly on sucking ie. That is all, I am so happy with Ubuntu