Steve Woodward

No, it isn't really. I just thought it was going to be a little less than that...

This makes FM a rather costly solution! The client I had in mind for this has about 15 users in their office, and another 10 or 15 that need to connect remotely. So they have to buy Server ($999), and 30 client licenses (via Volume Licensing is $229 each for a total of $6,870). Wow...

So an app based on the rumtime cannot work with data hosted on a FM server? None of the other reasons matter, this is a situation where we do not want the users doing anything other than inputting data and printing reports...

Thank you for the replies! I'm just curious, what is the benefit to having FMP on each workstation vs. just a runtime? That does increase deployment costs considerably. I'm guessing that it's so they can modify reports, etc. Thanks again all!

Please forgive me if this is an FAQ, the FileMaker site didn't quite answer my questions. Say I install FileMaker Server on a machine, then deploy the client application to multiple workstations that was created using Dev7. Does that satisfy licensing requirements, or is volume licensing required for all the clients? I know that the runtime isn't networkable, but does owning Dev7 allow you to redistribute without the need for Pro7 licenses? Again, sorry for the stupid question, new to FM. Thanks in advance... FileMaker Version: Dev 7 Platform: Mac OS X Panther