Dear Mark, I am a long time FileMaker Developer and have been using Revolution as a database front end for a short time. Because I am now using Rev as the interface for the database, a lot of the power of layouts, portals and scripts in Filemaker are no longer available.
I have ended up using PostgreSQL as theback end and Rev as the front end (MySQL has costs associated with networked/enterprise usage). PostgreSQL avoids the increasingly expensive FileMaker licensing model and yet provides a very high performance database engine to drive a complex application. Rev is an excellent front end for this type of architecture as it supports PostgreSQL along with many other databases "out of the box" (come to think of it I have never seen a Rev box)... You have other choices of course and Ruslan may jump in to tell you about another option called Valentina at this point... Regards John <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2> </FONT></DIV> <p style="font-family: Arial;">Technology Director <br>Debraneys <br>+61 (0) 2 9529 0007 Office <br>+61 (0) 4 3050 6980 Mobile <br>www.debraneys.com</p> >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Schonewille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 08:05 AM >To: 'How to use Revolution' >Subject: Filemaker through ODBC > >Hi, > >I might start a project that should connect a Revolution front-end to >a FM Pro database. One of the candidates to do this is ODBC. Reading >the archives, I can't help thinking that the combination of ODBC and >FM Pro may not be the best option. Does anyone have good experiences >with ODBC and FM Pro? How easy or difficult is it to accomplish this? > >Best regards, > >Mark > >-- > >Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering >http://economy-x-talk.com >http://www.salery.biz > >Quickly extract data from your HyperCard stacks with DIFfersifier. >http://differsifier.economy-x-talk.com > > >_______________________________________________ >use-revolution mailing list >use-revolution@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
