>Hi All.
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>I have a client who is convinced he wants to develop a fairly substantial application based on FileMaker Pro. The project is intensive enough that I wouldn't attempt it in VB and Access, but it is ideally suited for VFP. The problem here, is that I don't know enough about FileMaker Pro to make meaningful counter points.
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>Can anyone point me to media articles, objective comparisions, or hell; even MS "white papers" or anything else that help to save this project for VFP? Comments would also be welcome.
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>Thanks
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>Donald Lowrey
I saw FileMaker - don't remember whether it was "Pro" - briefly, a few years ago. It seems to me that it is more oriented towards the end-user (like Access, but more primitive). The version I have seen didn't have a proper programming language - everything had to be done with functions. Quite limited for a professional programmer. This may have changed with more recent versions, of course.
Hilmar.
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