Filemaker through ODBC

[John Tregea]

Np Mark, 

I do have the FmPro <> ODBC <> Rev connection working but haven't pounded on it to see what the performance is like.

Regards

JOhn 

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Schonewille [mailto:m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 08:32 AM
>To: 'How to use Revolution'
>Subject: Re: Filemaker through ODBC
>
>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
>
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