Search Again: Re: FM5 From: Shawn Hogan Date: Monday, June 12, 2000 Time: 11:31:08 am Jason wrote: > Am I the only person that thinks the engeneers of this package "FM Pro" > have got to be on crack to release a new version that is not at least one > step backward compatible? I have been wanting to say that for months > while Shawn apologizes for them in this list... {lol} Nah... while it's good in theory... For example 4.0, 4.1 and 3.0 were all inter-compatible, there is only so much you can do and maintain backward compatibility. I've never heard of any database that has even the single version of backward compatibility that the previous version of FileMaker had. It has a built-in conversion utility so if you open an old version it automatically converts it, but for using it in a client/server architecture and having 3.0-4.1 clients using it just as 5.0 clients are at the same time would be impossible and hold up the database itself. If it did do that, there would be zero reason to migrate Optigold to 5.0, because by moving to 5.0, all the legacy stuff can be thrown out, and things can be done differently (better) because of the new engine. - Shawn ------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Digital Point Solutions http://www.digitalpoint.com (858) 452-3696 ------------------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe and list archive please visit http://www.optigold.com/lists ------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: FM5 by Zach Boettner on Sep 25, 1999 at 12:34:50 pm Re: FM5 by Shawn Hogan on Sep 25, 1999 at 12:47:33 pm FM5 by Caio James on May 20, 2000 at 10:50:41 am Re: FM5 by Shawn Hogan on May 20, 2000 at 10:52:25 am Re: FM5 by Noel Del More on May 21, 2000 at 9:53:05 am Re: FM5 by Shawn Hogan on May 21, 2000 at 10:55:40 am FM5 by Greg McKenzie on Jun 12, 2000 at 1:18:40 am Re: FM5 by Shawn Hogan on Jun 12, 2000 at 11:10:26 am Re: FM5 by Jason on Jun 12, 2000 at 11:26:23 am Re: FM5 by Shawn Hogan on Jun 12, 2000 at 11:31:08 am Re: FM5 by Hostmaster on Jun 12, 2000 at 11:42:24 am Re: FM5 by Paul Farber on Jun 12, 2000 at 1:04:31 pm Re: FM5 by Eden Crane on Jun 12, 2000 at 1:12:26 pm Re: FM5 by Shawn Hogan on Jun 12, 2000 at 1:36:04 pm Re: FM5 by Shawn Hogan on Jun 12, 2000 at 1:36:34 pm FM5 by Eric Long on Jul 24, 2000 at 1:08:03 pm Re: FM5 by Shawn Hogan on Jul 24, 2000 at 1:11:01 pm