>From the WiTango web site: "The licensing model will stay the same ie,
Studio, Filemaker Server and Std Server. " which implies that there is work
going on for FMP.
While FMP is a great tool, it has severe scalability limits. From a desktop
app to a client server model, it can grow a bit, but that scalability isn't
available to Tango because FMP server isn't ODBC and doesn't have whatever
is necessary for Tango to talk to it, so you and I are limited to this
single-threaded thing that can be brought to its knees by two concurrent
requests. The workarounds are kludgy and expensive, running multiple
instances of FMP to get the benefit of more threads, etc.
Unless version 6 delivers what was hinted at and not delivered for version 5
(FMP server can be directly accessed by middleware), we'll all have to find
the easiest path to leave FMP behind. (that's why I'm promoting 4D as it has
most of the FMP capabilities AND is much more scalable) The program that
Jason mentioned, MacSQL, has a utility that synchronizes FMP and MySQL
databases - very cool idea - that might be a way to use the legacy FMP
applications while building forward in MySQL...
On 6/2/02 6:56 AM, "Stephen.Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Phil:
> Thanks for the update. Sadly, we suppose from this "suggestion" that FMP
> will NOT be supported by WiTango v5. While FMP is not SQL, and far to
> many developers ridicule the program, in many cases it provides
> outstanding, dependable and easy to produce solutions to cross-platform
> client needs. AND, many of us have invested considerable time, effort and
> monies in developing those solutions, with the assistance of Tango App
> Server. It would be a terrible shame to suggest that all of these
> developers' efforts were now just water over the bridge - worthless.
> There is much promise in anticipated features in FMP v6, and FMP v5.5
> contained many enhancements that made the program even more valuable than
> its predecessors, including its enhanced XML capabilities.
>
> Let's hope that this is not a true reflection of the FMP-WiTango
> relationship - as divorce is such an ugly (and expensive) proposition.
> Stephen
>
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