Search Again: Re: Nitpicking From: Mitch Vincent Date: Thursday, June 3, 1999 Time: 3:19:44 pm >>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. :-) Easy. There are SQL databases for virtually every platform, Unix, NT etc.. >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) Uhh.. There are many free SQL servers, like MySQL, it is free for *ix and only a little tiny bit for a windows platform. >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). Why would someone with no technical knowledge need to setup (or have) a database engine like FileMaker? That stuff about ease of use has never impressed me. If you can't setup a SQL server (about 2 hours of reading to get well informed about keys, tables and columns) then you really should get out of a technical position at an ISP :) >Ease Of Admin - FileMaker Pro Server is much easier I doubt it. >SQL/ODBC - Both can be turned into an ODBC data source for doing external >queries That's a plus, I hope.. There are also other (faster) ways to access a SQL server (especially one running on a Unix box). >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. Well, robustness aside, I'm sure FileMaker is a nice little database engine, but many MANY ISPs already use SQL compliant databases for many things, it would just be easier to reach more potential customers if OptiGold didn't have such a propriatory and expensive backend.. >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. :-) hehe I should sure hope so :-) I was just trying to make a helpful suggestion, I think it really would be worth OG's trouble to add SQL complaint database functionality into future releases... Thanks! - Mitch ------------------------------------------- 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