On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 09:44, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> 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?
----
nope - is it shipping yet? Last time I was in Fry's, V6 was on the
shelves and V7 has promised to add some interesting things like
triggers. But I have too much history with Filemaker to get sucked back
into it again and would never start a new project with it.
----
> >
> > 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?
----
Less than 10 at various businesses.
I really shouldn't have to defend my opinion...it is only that - an
opinion. There are workable things such as 4D and Visual FoxPro as well
and they probably scale a lot better than Filemaker for multi-user.
Filemaker's strength is the Q&D and it's weaknesses is in networking,
data checking and lack of a programming language. Peer to Peer networked
Filemaker is marginal at best and server based becomes a costly venture
and server based V7 won't be an option for some time.
The mission here is open source and it appears that GNU Enterprise
offers some real tools (albeit early development and light on
documentation).
Craig
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