I like the way www.roambi.com is available for iPhone and iPad. I like the way you can make spreadsheet models on Windows and Mac OS X and use it with viewer runtimes on Windows and Mac: www.quantrix.com
I personal like also Bento 3 for Mac, iPhone and iPad as idea: http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/ipad.html Maybe in future R:BASE for Windows + Mac OS X (as developers) and runtime for Windows + Mac could be great idea. A runtime for iPhone or iPad might be interesting but I am not sure if there is a market for ? I can think of a medical database which cen be used with a frontend on an iPad. Linux I don't have any experience. --- But any way great job for the new R:BASE eXtreme 9.0 ! Marco ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Downall To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 9:03 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc. Marco, I have an iPhone -- so does Razzak, come to think of it -- and I don't know what I would do with a version of R:BASE on my phone. The iPhone is a platform for client applications, hardly ever with a database on the phone. The database lives elsewhere, and is accessed through messages sent to and from the tiny applications on the phone. (The exception, where the database lives on the phone, is contacts, but even that is usually synced to another database elsewhere.) You don't find middleware for sale in the App Store. There's no "SQL Server" for iPhone, or "MS Access", or even FileMaker. You could certainly have an R:BASE database living on a server somewhere, and, or example, an iPhone web app that will access data from that database through a server application elsewhere, using Oterro at the server end. I must admit, though, that for almost 25 years I've done my own company billing through R:BASE, and just changed that to a "cloud" invoicing service that lets me enter hours, tasks, and expenses easily from my phone or my computer. I like the portability, and the ability to generate bills for my clients while I'm on a golf course in New Mexico and my computer is in Indiana. (Not that I'm billing them for that time :-) ) Bill On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Marco Groeneveld <[email protected]> wrote: By the way is there a market to have R:BASE working on an Apple IPhone ?
