There is a lot to consider here.
I would not suggest going to six. You would find it hard to buy a copy and
you would need unlimited.
You could go right to 8 but you will need FMSA to drive it.
You could go to 8 and use digital forest or Buddy Systems as your hosting
service they both support witango and FMP hosting.
With FMP 7-8 you get server side ODBC
You would want to convert your FMP stuff and to do that you are going to
need 6 to convert your 4 files then 7 or 8 to convert the 6. Or you can have
one of the Certified FMP 7 folks who have done conversions help you with the
process.
Since 7-8 support tables you would want to get all those files into one or
two databases with multiple tables.
There is a lot changed but all for the good in FMP and you should get good
performance for your sites.
With the new FMP moving to MySQL or SQL 2000 down the road is a breeze if
needed.
If you want to talk about this more give me a call. I have done several
conversion and a few FMP 7-8 witango projects that are live.
The latest is at
www.roughtongalleries.com
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Dan Stein
FileMaker 7 Certified Developer
Digital Software Solutions
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on 9/30/05 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Chaps
>
>
> I'm just about to convert my Tango 3.5 TAFs (WebSTAR 4.5, OS 9.1, Filemaker 4)
> to 5.5 Lite running on OS X 10.3.9 and then 10.4.2 with Apache
>
> I was planning to use Filemaker 6 or Filemaker 8 but obviously have the option
> of MySQL as well. I have 20 Filemaker databases, all very simple, that could,
> in theory, be moved over to MySQL to dump Filemaker altogether
>
> From a cursory inspection of 5.5 Lite it looks as though direct connections to
> Filemaker are out and I need to use OBDC or something. In some ways I'd like
> dump Filemaker completely and jump to MySQL to avoid dealing with Filemaker
> and ODBC but some of my complex TAFs (there are about 50 of them) have
> thousands of references back to Filemaker fields and even with careful Search
> & Replace I would be in for some serious debugging afterwards
>
> So, to my questions:
>
> - Jump straight to MySQL?
> - setup Filemaker, figure out that ODBC thang and migrate gently to MySQL?
> - learn PHP as well and build some simple bits in PHP?
> - farm the work out to someone who knows what he's doing?
>
> I understand my site and the TAFs very well, even though it's a few years
> since I've said hello to some of them, but know nothing at all about MySQL
>
> The bigger of the two sites can wait to be relaunched in January so there's no
> real time problem for that. The more important site has two TAFs, one database
>
>
> Good to be back, by the way!
>
>
> Nick Froome
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