Decision to buy fm advanced server

[Ersen Kavak]

Hi;

I have been using fm7 since approx 1 year before.

I am happy with FM. I made two different databases one of which is for laboratory optimization (15 people), and the other is for department optimization (100 people), I will host these 2 dbs from one MacOSX server G4...

With FM7 it is getting difficult to host several files to this much people...

So, It seems reasonable to buy advanced server at this point. But, to make bosses believe that advanced server is really neccessary, first I should believe it will be enough...Because, it is quite expensive and no demo is available as I know...

In brief, I have two questions:

1: a) Will all the scripts work in web publishing companion? Will it be the same as using FM over network sharing? If not what will be the differences ?

2: I will host a webpage and Mysql over that server, too...Do you know any possible conflicts?

Thanks in advance for any help

Best

[Reed]

There is a "demo" of sorts if you are using Dev 7. You have a development license for FMSA. You can install it and test it out for up to three users on a network/browser. If it did not come with your copy of FMD, you can order the media and license key for <$20 from FMI.

Also, you can test your scripts in instant web publishing using FMP. It will behave the same in FMSA, with more capacity. Not all script steps are supported in IWP, but you can check for compatibility right in scriptmaker. (there's a checkbox which highlights incompatible steps.)

You can host static web pages from the same machine with no trouble. The Mac running the web publishing engine will have (or be connected to) a machine running apache (mac) or IIS (win)

I don't know if MySQL will conflict with FMSA, but I'd guess it would be OK, depending on the level of traffic.

[Ersen Kavak]

Dear Reed;

thanks for your reply..

I have lots of questions to ask about FMSA..in the first hand can the page size be arranged ?

Is there a detailed!! documentation about FMSA which I can get...If you have it in the PDF format, can u send it to [email protected]

because if it will face me with the same problems in IWP as FM7 PRO, I will think twice before buying FMSA...

Thanks again