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Re: Goodbye, Filemaker

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From	Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com>
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Subject	Re: Goodbye, Filemaker
Date	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 18:50:21 +1200
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In article <mllkst$g0f$1@news.motzarella.org>, Howard Schlossberg
<howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> wrote:
> On 6/12/2015 11:23 AM, Christoph Kaufmann wrote:
> >
> > Tim Dietrich, author of FM EasySync and various other freeware tools,
> > stops "doing filemaker". I copy the text from his blog for the benefit
> > of offline readers.
> >
> > http://timdietrich.me/blog/goodbye-filemaker/
> >
> > "Goodbye, FileMaker
> 
> Thanks for posting that, Christoph.  I hadn't had a chance to read it 
> prior.  I must say that I agree with most of Tim's points, 

I skimmed it, but it seemed like a lot of whining and someone who has
probably simply become bored with FileMaker developing. I can't say
I've really come across any of the problems he talks about.

Basically all software is going to move to "cloud" based versions at
some stage - it's far easier and cheaper for the developer to update it
and keep everyone using the same version.

> but I just haven't found another database that has better captured the
> market or mastered the combination of technologies.

The most widely used database is of course the over-complicate mess
Microsoft Access, but there's no Mac version of that (thank goodness!).

I did play around with Omnis and 4D many years ago, which wasn't bad,
but not that great either. I'm not even sure what is actually still
around these days.

Helpful Harry  :o)

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Goodbye, Filemaker clkaufmann@gmx.ch (Christoph Kaufmann) - 2015-06-12 20:23 +0200
  Re: Goodbye, Filemaker Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2015-06-14 21:40 -0700
    Re: Goodbye, Filemaker Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2015-06-15 18:50 +1200

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