Filemaker through ODBC

[Mark Schonewille]

John,

Thanks, I'm aware of everything you wrote. I am looking for  
experiences with FM and ODBC.

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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Op 2-okt-2007, om 0:30 heeft John Tregea het volgende geschreven:

> Dear Mark,
> I am a long time FileMaker Developer and have been using Revolution  
> as a database front end for a short time. Because I am now using  
> Rev as the interface for the database, a lot of the power of  
> layouts, portals and scripts in Filemaker are no longer available.
>
> I have ended up using PostgreSQL as theback end and Rev as the  
> front end (MySQL has costs associated with networked/enterprise  
> usage). PostgreSQL avoids the increasingly expensive FileMaker  
> licensing model and yet provides a very high performance database  
> engine to drive a complex application.
>
> Rev is an excellent front end for this type of architecture as it  
> supports PostgreSQL along with many other databases "out of the  
> box" (come to think of it I have never seen a Rev box)...
>
> You have other choices of course and Ruslan may jump in to tell you  
> about another option called Valentina at this point...
>
> Regards
>
> John