On Apr 13, 2004, at 11:48 PM, Bupkus wrote:

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of 
> Vaughn
> Treude
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:28 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: I need some help understanding which programming tools to 
> use
> for my project.
>
> On Tuesday 13 April 2004 20:19, you wrote:
>> I've been dancing around this programming project on and off for 
>> years and
>> I've started work on it again.
>>
>> I have relatives with a family childcare business. They don't like 
>> their
>> current software which they can't modify and support won't either... 
>> sound
>> familiar?
>>
>> The fact is I just don't know where to begin.  I have a very little
>> experience some years back with MS Access 2.0 but I don't think that 
>> will
>> help me now.  I do have MS Office 2003 Pro with Access, but even if 
>> lets
>> say I use that, after all that work, I can't market it even if it's 
>> good
>> enough, can I?

It looks like the quoting is complicated here. I think that Bupkus 
asked the original question.

My advice would be to develop your application in FileMaker and simply 
abandon the notion of selling small business software on Linux for now. 
If you look at the market for specialized small business software, 
FileMaker pretty well dominates the sector. That's no accident. It is 
simply easy enough to develop, support and deploy an application on 
FileMaker that it is a viable business model to make software for baby 
sitters, or dog trainers, or camera shops or whatever. Filemaker 
doesn't support Linux on the client side yet, they do support it as a 
small business server, but they probably will when there is a market.

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