Absolutely agree with Richard here (except for insisting that non-profits have no money).
Now might be a really good time to learn CWP and let your web solutions really take wing. Jonathan On Mar 15, 2015, at 11:10 AM, "Richard S. Russell" <[email protected]> wrote: > However, there are cost considerations. When FMI finally departed from the > “.fp7” file format (an incredibly robust workhorse that had served us all > well thru Versions 7, 8, 8.5, 9, 10, and 11), it also abandoned the idea that > you could do web publishing directly out of plain-vanilla FMP. Beginning with > the “.fmp12” file format, you needed to go to the more expensive FileMaker > Server to get that capability. (And, by “that capability”, I mean “the > considerably more powerful WebDirect instead of the older, simpler, and > increasingly out-of-date Instant Web Publishing”.) > > A copy of stand-alone FMP is $329. A copy of FMP Server with 0 connections is > $1,044. But, of course, the whole point of web publishing is that you’re > gonna want connections, so the least you’re looking at is Server + 5 > connections for $1,944. That $1,600 bump is probably not an obstacle for even > a small business, but it looms large for the kind of non-profit organizations > I do most of my development for. And it may for Gary as well. > > But sooner or later, Gary, you’re gonna have to bite that bullet. IWP is > already on its last legs of being able to work with the web browsers of 2015, > and if I were you I wouldn’t be investing any more of my time in something > that’s doomed to irrelevance in the next several years. > -- Jonathan Fletcher Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC [email protected] http://www.fletcherdata.com 502-509-7137
