I would agree in terms of the Web. This is slated to be fixed but not sure
if it is in 6.0 or 7.0.
As far as desktop client server I have not seen the scalability issues and
in fact some locations like NIH have 23,000.
on 6/2/02 10:40 AM, Roland Dumas at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> 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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