I used to be a Lasso/FileMaker programmer. The day I decided to
switch to the all-unix MySQL/PHP/Perl platform was very telling. I
was attempting to parse log files with Lasso's file tags. Everything
was working quite well, but once the log file was bigger than about
500k, it would "hang"
This is probably heresy here, but we use Filemaker for our web-database
solution. The main reason why we use that in preference to more 'robust'
SQL-based DBs is that we have a team using Filemaker clients updating
information constantly and Filemaker is the most efficient db we have found
to do t
