OpenBase - WAS: Re: Filemaker through ODBC

[Luis]

Hiya,

Anyone tried OpenBase (http://www.openbase.com/) as an alternative?
I'll admit I haven't used it much, but found performance much better  
that FMP.

I have seen a very impressive POS made with it, can't recall the name.

Nice thing I noticed was that some functions are available as standard,
whereas they're plugins in FMP (like integrated email for instance,  
although basic).

Cheers,

Luis.


On 3 Oct 2007, at 11:01, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at ...> writes:
>
>> I might start a project that should connect a Revolution front-end to
>> a FM Pro database. One of the candidates to do this is ODBC. Reading
>> the archives, I can't help thinking that the combination of ODBC and
>> FM Pro may not be the best option. Does anyone have good experiences
>> with ODBC and FM Pro? How easy or difficult is it to accomplish this?
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> We have several installations that routinely extract data from FMP  
> via ODBC.  It
> works fine, with a few minor limitations (which may by now have  
> been dealt with
> anyway, these were set up a few years ago).  The app itself  
> routinely extracts
> data from various different databases, so the good thing about FMP  
> via ODBC, as
> far as I'm concerned, is that configuring the app in these cases to  
> extract from
> FMP was reasonably trivial.  It is necessary to throw a dialog on  
> screen to tell
> the user to make sure that Filemaker is open and has these  
> databases open.
>
> However, one caveat:  for the last 18 months, we've been having  
> horrendous
> problems with one client using this facility.  Their database  
> solution, built
> for them in FMP by a third party developer, is the most insanely  
> architected
> I've seen in a long while.  Apart from a shudder of disgust, I  
> didn't think it
> would be a problem; but in fact, especially as the client has added  
> considerably
> more data, we've found this impacts on getting the data out over  
> ODBC.  In some
> cases it times out; even worse, in some cases it doesn't, but  
> doesn't return all
> the data.
>
> I mostly blame the madmen who so badly designed the database  
> solution; but the
> fact is that it 'works' viewed through FileMaker itself, but fails  
> in various
> ways over ODBC.
>
> So just be aware, that while I don't think you should have a  
> problem, if you
> were to try to connect to an exceptionally badly designed database  
> (eg one in
> which extracting simple items of data required FileMaker to  
> undertake chains of
> calculations) you might run into difficulties.
>
>
> - Ben
>
>
>
>
>
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