Re: Witango-Talk: FileMker 7

[Joe Terrasi]

It's not just a datasource and front end, it also has relatively easy 
and useful tools for creating print reports. (I hear it's also a 
dessert topping and a floor wax, but that's unconfirmed.) While I 
agree with a previous poster that I would not select FMP if I were 
starting today, but almost every one of our current solutions is 
built on legacy solutions from as far back as 1997. We used a very 
functional middleware product called simply "Tango" for a 
now-nonexistant company called "Everyware."

If I were to switch, I would have hundreds of reports to recreate....


 > If FMP7 has gone multi-table, won't that require a significant amount
 of redesign/recoding to allow existing apps to take advantage of it?
It's been multi-table since version 4. But each table was a separate file.
Now it's multi-table in a single file like other dbs.
I assume all that's really required from the point of view of another app is
to readdress the datasource naming convention. Of course I can imagine the
WiTango programmers cringing at me telling everyone how easy their job is
without actually opening the bonnet. ;)
Also, remember that FMP is not just a datasource, but also a front end. And
it is backwards compatible with FMP6 apps so the cost of changeover for
existing users is minimal. I just created a simple two table solution in
FMP6 and converted to 7. Easy.
Wayne Irvine

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