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Member since:2005-11-10
Filemaker has been able to make webpages that can be viewed with any platform since version 4, and it doesn't require you to have FileMaker Pro installed on a client. But you are right , there is a 5 user connection limit with FileMaker Pro, and FileMaker Pro Advanced, but that increases to 100 with FileMaker Server.
Member since:2005-11-10
I'm confused and Filemaker's site doesn't help. Do you have to buy two separate products? FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced to make the database and File Maker Server 8 Advanced to host it? Or do you just buy FileMaker Server 8 Advanced and have everything you need? I'm just not getting the difference between (or relationship between) FileMaker Pro 8 Advanced and FileMaker Server 8 Advanced.
If the claim is true that "all you need is a web browser" to view these pages, it might be a viable alternative to what I'm using Access for, because even though the Office Web Components are a free download, the fact that something has to be downloaded and installed at all in order to view these pages (for non-Office XP/2003 users) has been quite a pain.
Member since:2005-07-06
Yeah but can FileMaker Pro do web pages yet? The only thing that makes Access vialble nowadays is the fact that you can make web pages with it just as easily as you could make forms that lived inside Access in the past, and the components necessary for the client to view these types of pages are freely downloadable and redistributable from Microsoft, and anybody with any version of Office greater than 2000 already has these components installed.
Last time I checked, FileMaker could make web pages that interacted with FileMaker databases, but they required a per-user license to view those web-pages(!), and they could only be viewed on a Mac with FileMaker Pro isntalled. (Note you don't need to have MS Office or MS Access installed to view web pages that were created inside Access and interact with Access databases.) If FileMaker has changed to be more in-line with what you'd expect a web-development tool to be and do, I would consider switching from MS Access to FileMaker Pro.
Last time I checked, there was actually more than one database on the block; given 4th Dimension a try lately?
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2005-11-10
Yeah but can FileMaker Pro do web pages yet? The only thing that makes Access vialble nowadays is the fact that you can make web pages with it just as easily as you could make forms that lived inside Access in the past, and the components necessary for the client to view these types of pages are freely downloadable and redistributable from Microsoft, and anybody with any version of Office greater than 2000 already has these components installed.
Last time I checked, FileMaker could make web pages that interacted with FileMaker databases, but they required a per-user license to view those web-pages(!), and they could only be viewed on a Mac with FileMaker Pro isntalled. (Note you don't need to have MS Office or MS Access installed to view web pages that were created inside Access and interact with Access databases.) If FileMaker has changed to be more in-line with what you'd expect a web-development tool to be and do, I would consider switching from MS Access to FileMaker Pro.