I remember your trepidation at first over IBM, now as you realize all these new alliances will benefit FileMaker developers you are going to need staff, Penthouse office & a fleet of vehicles.
John Sent from my iPhone > On May 5, 2016, at 9:17 PM, Jonathan Fletcher <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On May 5, 2016, at 8:34 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> “Two things stop people from enjoying mobility benefits: They worry about >> security or they worry about integrating with their back end systems,” Cook >> said. SAP’s and Apple’s strengths can address that, he said. > > As an Apple stockholder, I love it! Sell more iPads! Please! Work your way > into the enterprise in any way you can! Go for it! > > As a developer in the business space, of course, another of my warring > personalities has a much more visceral perspective. > > Back then I worried about how the Apple and IBM alliance would affect > FileMaker’s business, but I haven’t yet found anyone from FMI that sounded > the least bit worried about it. I also have seen nothing in my milieu that > has been touched by its tendrils in any way. > > Now that SAP is also drinking the iOS kool-aid, it’s just more of the same: > they only serve the big guys. > > <shamelessplug> > > The much larger number of entities in the small to medium-sized business > space that need just as much (if not more) mobility, security, flexibility > and power and can’t afford the elephants in the room turn to the mouse that > roared: FileMaker. > > </shamelessplug> > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > FileMaker Certified Developer (9 thru 14) > > Fletcher Data Consulting, LLC > A FileMaker Business Alliance Partner > [email protected] > http://www.fletcherdata.com > 502-509-7137 > > Kentuckiana's FileMaker Developers Group > Next meeting: Tuesday, May 24th, noon to 3:30 > http://www.kyfmp.com > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
