Hi John,
There's an article in FileMaker Advisor you might find interesting:
http://filemakeradvisor.com/doc/18503
It doesn't talk about Advantage, but about FileMaker vs other
solutions in general.
To me the basic conceptual difference between FM and ADS or other
such technology is similar to the difference between lean and
traditional manufacturing. FileMaker isn't a performance champion and
compared to other development environments it looks very much like a
toy, but it's very simple and very easy to use. With FileMaker you
can change your application literally every day and it doesn't take a
professional programmer to add a new report.
I cannot answer the ‘most critical’ question though, because ‘several
large databases’ is probably too vague a specification. There are,
you know, large and large. There's no reason not to manage large
databases in FileMaker, it's pretty capable of it, but if your files
are large... ;-)
Regards,
--
Mikhail Edoshin
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On Feb 8, 2007, at 6:08 PM, John Eiseman wrote:
I'm strictly an FM-PRO amateur/hobbyist, who has been using FM for
about 10 years. A co-worker is trying to educate me regarding
Advantage Database Server, used in conjunction with Delphi and/or
SQL. I'm completely ignorant of these. Can someone please
explain, VERY briefly, the basic conceptual difference(s) between
using FM versus ADS? Most critical: is there any reason why our
company should NOT use FM Pro to manage several large databases, in
favor of ADS or some other solution? Is there any intrinsic
deficiency with FM when compared to an ADS (Delphi/SQL) solution?
Thanks !!
