Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.tele2net.at!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helpful Harry Newsgroups: comp.databases.filemaker Subject: Re: Value Not Dependent on the Found Set Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:22:50 +1300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 37 Message-ID: <221120130922500825%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> References: <1lc5yrc.rmt30810crvj2N%csampson@inetworld.net> <0fa27c27-d6b7-477b-9104-15fb90b2c124@googlegroups.com> <1lc9olh.fh6kuzk00mfN%csampson@inetworld.net> <4f6960ba-9ead-4d3d-9955-6f3fc3a10f43@googlegroups.com> <1lcehod.iygd7qx1864bN%csampson@inetworld.net> <1lciysv.1610un7cllo89N%csampson@inetworld.net> <1lcmgg4.1xd5nxk4wttzaN%csampson@inetworld.net> <1ad52e6a-a093-4399-a429-4c44e58f4b02@googlegroups.com> <211120130904232715%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> <1lcp28r.1fiyolt17pegqoN%clkaufmann@gmx.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: cZQo4rSByrBpcwqh47PPVA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.4 (Carbon/OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.filemaker:1536 In article <1lcp28r.1fiyolt17pegqoN%clkaufmann@gmx.ch>, Christoph Kaufmann wrote: > Helpful Harry wrote: > > > > Upgrading simply just for the sake of it has always struck me > > as pointlessly silly, and expensive. > > My new customers often have more advanced versions of Filemaker than I > have, and most of the time, the solution is just as it was in Filemaker > 6 and earlier. One table per file, no script parameters, no variables, > no tabs, hundreds of fields per table. What did they upgrade for? > > There appears to be a problem for Mac users: Many versions of Filemaker > do not run on a Mac bought approx. 2 or more years after the Filemaker > version was released, like FMP 8 on OS 10.6. or just anything before FMP > 12 on Maverick (and no Filemaker Server runs on Maverick yet). Getting > an new computers means upgrading filemaker. > > Whereas Filemaker 3-12 version seem to run on Windows XP, 7 and 8. Getting a new computer can make the upgrade less pointless since it's often no longer upgrading the software simply for the sake of upgrading ... unless of course getting the new computer itself was simply for the sake of upgrading, and the old one was still perfectly fine. One of the problems on the Mac was Apple's switch from PowerPC to Intel chips. The older versions of Mac FileMaker simply weren't written to run on Intel chips. Apple has also re-written large parts of Mac OS X, removed Rosetta (for running PowerPC applications on Intel Macs). Upgrading tends to be a vicious circle whereby the software upgrades force the hardware upgrades, and vice versa. With the obvious exception of a computer that breaks down, there's usually little need for most people to upgrade. Helpful Harry :o)