[WinMac] Filemaker vs. Access

Darryl Lee(lee[at]darryl.com)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 09:29:27 -0400

Welp... it sounds like i have a lot of work ahead of me at this new
job where i'm going to be trying to take a Filemaker database and make
it into a SQL-based thing with (i suppose) an Access (and probably
web) front-end. (Ugh, it's been *years* since i've done any DB stuff.
Should be fun/interesting/a nightmare. :)

i just have one comment on this whole discussion though:

Tim Scoff wrote:
> MS Access just does not exist for the Mac and probably never will.

To which Leonard replied:
> As I understand it, it's a "never will". It's a combination
> of market (ie. the Mac folks don't need it like Windows people do)
> and also that they guts of Access are the JET DBEngine which is
> optimized for Intel architecture.

i understand that architecturally, Access being ported to the Mac is
probably not possible, but why would Mac users not need a database
application like the Windows people use?

Is it because Filemaker is such a fine alternative (apparently *not*)
or because anybody using a Mac is probably using it for something
graphic, and not data-related, and hence wouldn't need it?

Not a flame. It's just that assertion sounded kind of funny, and i
was wondering what your reasoning was, Leonard. :}

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Darryl Lee <lee@darryl.com> | New, yes. But improved? <http://www.darryl.com>


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