Re: Now Up-to-Date Isn't Very Cross-Platform

Steve Hyman(steveh[at]practech.com)
Fri, 3 Jul 1998 11:50:07 -0400

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Dear All,

Matthew Easton wrote:

><<SNIP>>
>#... and would like to
># use a single PIM on both platforms if possible. I've been hoping
that
># Eudora's update of NUTD (Eudora Planner) would be a solution. #
>Alternatively, I've been wondering about a Filemaker Pro-based PIM.
>Filemaker works quite well on both platforms. Best performance is to
>buy the server (lists for $1000 last time I checked) and run it on NT.
>Every client will have to have a copy of Filemaker (lists for $200,
last
>time I checked). And then there are development costs if none of the
>freeware stuff on the Filemaker site is adequate. The beauty of
>Filemaker is that you really can design a user interface that reflects
>your unique needs.
>If you have a relatively small number of users or fast machines or are
>willing to put up with the slowness, you can serve from the $200
version
>as well.
>You can also Web-enable Filemaker 4, so theoretically it's possible to
>have a browser-based PIM running from only one copy of Filemaker that
>talks to a web server... to me browser-based seems the most exciting
>possiblity, although Filemaker's web pages aren't ready for prime time
>right out of the box.
>Is anyone using or considering intranet web browsers for this sort of
>thing?

At my work, we are starting to experiment with web browsers for shared
data bses for planning. We're pretty rough at it right now, but I made a
couple of quick ugly data bases and used the automatic "web companion"
to get them up and running. They are for sure ugly when they get to the
web (a couple of them actually have rather nice interfaces in FileMaker
itself). Anyway, if you want you can go and look. Of the data bases
listed at my site, three are running on a PC networked by ethernet to
the server, and one is running on another PC networked to the server.
FileMaker is not installed on the server itself. I suspect that they
would all run much faster if the $200 version of FileMaker were
installed directly on the server. Hope to accomplish that this week.
Meanwhile, you can see that they are very, very slow to load over the
internet, and quite ugly once there. I have not yet learned the CDML to
make pretty interfaces function correctly on the net. They do run almost
adequately fast on the local network, but over the web, they are slow.
If interested, you can go to http://mermaid.spawar.navy.mil and click on
the "DataBases" button and see what happens.
Daly
<mailto:jessup@san.rr.com>
Daly Jessup

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