New FileMaker Pro Article

[George TOUBALIS]

Hi...!

sorry for my Enlgish...

My real job is Graphic designer...

I use FileMaker Pro for one part of my work (catalogues)

I also write articles here in Greece in 3 magazines (two Graphic design magazines and one about General PC technology)

The One about General PC technology is the biggest magazine about PC's here in Greece (60-75.000 /month)

There I write advanced photoshop technics (see file).

Generally in my articles I want to keep very high level (see file).

No one since now write an article about FM pro 7.

The magazine gives me 6 pages (about 4.000 words with 5-6 screen shots plus a big "WOW" Illustration about Fm Pro in the beginning of the article ....I Will post it when I finished it...)

I wrote about

- History

- New custom functions

- New Script Editor

- Unlimited tables

- Capacity

- Relationships

- New Layout features

The questions for you are:

-What to write about WEB and build custom web sites with XML and XSLT.. (I don' t Know anything about)

-What are these 2-3 little thinks I can write to convinced "Access users" to move to the FM Pro word.

Any suggestions...?

p.s

I Give you one of my past articles about photoshop (In pdf) to see that I take every job very seriously....

and I promise to represent the Fm Pro community here in Greece with every respect ...!

Bubbles 5 2004.pdf

[The Shadow]

I would think Unicode storage would be a big deal for Europe in general, I dunno if Access has that.

The problems I've heard of for Access are:

- Stability

- Capacity (bogs down at 100,000 records), on the "Magnificant 7" tour, a 6 GB database is demo'ed, with millions of records.

- Network performance isn't good.

Disclaimer: Maybe some of these issues have been resolved, I haven't used Access myself for years.

[Mike D.]

There was a white paper comparing Access to FM5.5 is posted on FileMaker's website. It is now in the archive section, but here is the link to the article. It is a bit dated now that FM7 has been released, but the info on Access is still current.

HTH, Mike