Search Again: Re: Nitpicking From: Shawn Hogan Date: Thursday, June 3, 1999 Time: 10:07:05 pm tech wrote: >actually there are a great many of us small ISP's that want to use a >fantastic looking product like this.... but we already have SQL for client >databases and shopping cart programs...... the problem I have is I do run >more then 5 client terminals and thus need the pro server version which >makes me think I need to set up yet another database server separate from my >SQL server.... wrong kind of redundancy...... > > >If this thing worked on SQL there would be a great many people >switching..... the NT-ISP list I'm on is speaking about it already and the >only negative thus far is it is not an SQL based database.... Scalability >is important because non of us gets into this business to just have a couple >hundred clients..... Agreed... FileMaker Pro 4.1 has an ODBC/SQL plug-in to make it an ODBC data source so really it *is* SQL compliant. If you mean porting it to something such as MS SQL Server, that will never happen. :-) And with the introduction of FileMaker Pro 5.0 right around the corner, it will just make it "all the more" SQL compliant. As it won't require a plug-in, it will just be natively SQL. As for running on various SQL Servers, there are too many of them out there to fine-tune it to each one. So I'm guessing it will stay on FileMaker Pro Server, but since it's a SQL server, someone could put all their SQL databases on *it*... At least that's what I'm assuming. I'll know more when I see a shipping 5.0 Server. - 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