On Apr 15, 2004, at 9:05 AM, Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 21:28, Chris Gehlker wrote:
>> 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.
> ---
> Filemaker provides the avenue for quick and dirty but by the time you
> clean it up, try to control bad user input, struggle with the lack of a
> programming language and implement the endless workarounds for features
> that it lacks, it delivers a stillborn.

I suspect that you are just being argumentative here. Have you even 
used version 7?
>
> It would seem that for networked environments, long term vision and
> planning is a better program than quick turnaround implementations that
> are more clumsy and costly in the long run.

How many applications have you deployed, Craig?


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