Search Again: Re: Nitpicking From: Shawn Hogan Date: Thursday, June 3, 1999 Time: 1:50:36 pm Mitch Vincent wrote: >I have often wondered.. Why not a SQL backend? That would make it available >to virtually every ISP out there, not just the ones that have money to burn >on commercial database stuff and running NT :-) I'm not sure how SQL would make it available to any ISP... But uhm... okay. :-) A quick comparison of FileMaker Pro Server vs. SQL Server... Performance - About the same Price - FileMaker Pro Server is *MUCH* cheaper ($250-$800 for a 100 user license) Ease of Setup - Someone with no technical knowledge could setup FileMaker Pro in a client/server environment in 10 minutes (I could do it in about 30 seconds). Ease Of Admin - FileMaker Pro Server is much easier SQL/ODBC - Both can be turned into an ODBC data source for doing external queries For this product, it was pretty clear which platform to use... The only thing that may be a little more robust would be Oracle, but the cost of ownsership of Oracle would have made it so we would have sold maybe 1 out of 100 units we currently sell. Also, Oracle probably wouldn't show an advantage until you hit about 1-2M customers, at which point, I figured ISPs probably already have a billing system in place. :-) - Shawn ------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Digital Point Solutions http://www.digitalpoint.com (619) 452-3696 ------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe and list archive please visit http://www.optigold.com/lists -------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: Nitpicking by Lanham Rattan on Jun 2, 1999 at 4:04:00 pm Re: Nitpicking by Lance Julander on Jun 2, 1999 at 4:51:00 pm Re: Nitpicking by Mitch Vincent on Jun 2, 1999 at 6:06:00 pm Re: Nitpicking by Lance Julander on Jun 3, 1999 at 12:44:57 pm Re: Nitpicking by Shawn Hogan on Jun 3, 1999 at 1:50:36 pm Re: Nitpicking by Shawn Hogan on Jun 3, 1999 at 1:50:55 pm Re: Nitpicking by Shawn Hogan on Jun 3, 1999 at 1:56:09 pm Re: Nitpicking by Lanham Rattan on Jun 3, 1999 at 2:23:41 pm Re: Nitpicking by Mitch Vincent on Jun 3, 1999 at 3:19:44 pm Re: Nitpicking by Shawn Hogan on Jun 3, 1999 at 3:36:39 pm Re: Nitpicking by Lance Julander on Jun 3, 1999 at 4:31:32 pm Re: Nitpicking by Robin Quasebarth on Jun 3, 1999 at 6:51:06 pm Re: Nitpicking by Mitch Vincent on Jun 3, 1999 at 7:58:25 pm Re: Nitpicking by Shawn Hogan on Jun 3, 1999 at 8:17:22 pm Re: Nitpicking by Aaron Lynch on Jun 3, 1999 at 9:09:11 pm Re: Nitpicking by tech on Jun 3, 1999 at 9:52:37 pm Re: Nitpicking by Shawn Hogan on Jun 3, 1999 at 10:07:05 pm Re: Nitpicking by tech on Jun 3, 1999 at 10:37:43 pm Re: Nitpicking by Shawn Hogan on Jun 3, 1999 at 10:48:40 pm Re: Nitpicking by Troy Harris on Jun 4, 1999 at 10:46:03 am