This is amazing -- I had replied to a message about the lack of
integrated databases in Mac office products in general, and we get a
semi-serious of the value discussion of the value of using a text
file as a database (although the abacus idea had merit -- at least it
would not take over anyones MSO file types)!
While a text file may work out ok for mailing Christmas cards, you
can not design any kind of useful database application using a
spreadsheet and word processor, and the suggestion that you can
reminds of the Lotus 123 nuts who figured that an 80 character wide
column made for a usable word processor.
I have both MySQL and Filemaker on my Mac and yes for a Mac user
MySQL is a different experience and will never be an out of the box
solution -- and having used Base on Windows and Linux , I am not
sure that even if it was available on the Mac it would ever replace
FM Pro as the database on my Mac.
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On Sep 30, 2005, at 1:44 AM, Jonathon Blake wrote:
RandomBots wrote:
still isn't it overkill for the average desktop database?
a) Once upon a time dBase 3 was considered to be overkill for a
desktop database.
b) I know of a couple of companies who original estimate of the size
of their database was "not more than 10 000 records". Within a year
they were pushing 100 000 records.
The really hard part about any database is teaching people how to
create a new database.
xan
jonathon
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