On Apr 14, 2004, at 7:59 PM, Bupkus wrote:

> I've heard of FileMaker but can I develop a program that can be 
> networked
> with it?

Yes. For a few users you can run it in peer-to-peer mode. You just 
designate one computer as primary. For larger applications, the server 
version of FileMaker supports up to 256 simultaneous users.

>>
>> 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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