Search Again: Re: Nitpicking From: Shawn Hogan Date: Thursday, June 3, 1999 Time: 3:36:39 pm Mitch Vincent wrote: >Easy. There are SQL databases for virtually every platform, Unix, NT etc.. > > Uhh.. There are many free SQL servers, like MySQL, it is free for *ix and >only a little tiny bit for a windows platform. Well, it goes a little beyond that. For example, FileMaker Pro is (4.1 with the plug-in or 5.0 natively) SQL comliant but that doesn't mean it will just work on SQL Server or MySQL for that matter. It still requires custom work for each SQL platform. > 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 :) It's better from a support standpoint on our end. > I doubt it. {grin} okay. >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.. Actually you can use the free runtime for up to 4-5 concurrent employees, so the cost is zero. While, I would definately recommend spending the $248 for FileMaker Pro Server, it's not *required* though. >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... FileMaker Pro 5.0 is natively SQL compliant, so it will be there even if we didn't want it (of course we WOULD though). :-) - 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