FileMaker 9 & Valentina

[Kim Kohen]

On 11/07/2007, at 11:21 PM, Kem Tekinay wrote:

> I envision a day when I can have the ease of interface development  
> that
> FileMaker brings to the table married to the speed of Valentina on the
> backend, but this first requires an ODBC driver for Valentina that  
> will work
> on the Mac. I think that such a thing would open up a whole new  
> market for
> Valentina.
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Would like to see it happen.

Whilst I've never been able to get ODBC working correctly on the Mac,  
I've always heard people speak of it being slow, so I imagine some of  
the speed benefits would be lost.

I've also become more comfortable with RB over the past few months  
and seem to be able to get quite a bit done, quite a bit quicker then  
before. I can still knock up a quick and dirty FMP solution in a  
quarter of the time - but it will be quick and dirty.

> Opinions?
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I was disappointed they didn't have support for Sybase:(  We have a  
proprietary system at work on Sybase and they're always asking for  
new reports to be created. No-one here knows  Crystal but if FMP  
could connect easily I could throw together reports in FMP where my  
background is strong. if it could connect to Valentina I'd be happy  
to write reports from Valentina in FMP also.


cheers

kim