filemaker or 4th dimension?

[alimrb]

filemaker or 4th dimension?

which one is better for a large governmental corporation with 400 simultaneous users and Host up to 70 database files simultaneously to store massive amounts of data on the desktop and webbased network?

filemaker or 4th dimension?

Edited February 11, 2006 by Guest

[alimrb]

realy isnt there any answer to my question?

[Søren Dyhr]

I would say that you might be abel to pull it of in filemaker or 4D, but that vast number of users might be out of the scope of both tools specific marked segments. It's likely to be more a question skills with maintaining a solution of this caliber as well as dedicated leadership when developing.

Honestly are we here way into a genuine SQL solution, since recruting the right people to service and maintain the solution is more straight forward and less of a problem.

--sd

[Ted S]

My initial reaction is to question why you would even consider Filemaker for such a task. Filemaker is really a workgroup and small business class database. Fourth Dimemsion I'm not really familiar with at all.

[alimrb]

thanks, im waiting for hardy answers :

[Søren Dyhr]

Hardy who? or Laurel who?? "Far From Madding Crowd" Hardy?

....alright if you should consider Filemaker should you keep in mind that each server only handles 250 simultaneous users, so robots are required for the syncking of each server to the rest of the servers, so it might be 3 x 249 clients and utilizing http://www.syncdeck.com/syncdek.html

Further more should the clients perhaps use this http://filemaker.com/downloads/documentation/fm8_citrix_guide.pdf

To avoid indigestion in the networking....

But you should also seriously consider why something like this has an axe to grind:

http://www.fmpromigrator.com/

My guess is that people in dispair over limitations - seek refuge in tools like it that allows scaling much better.

Next thing you should consider is the curriculum that lead to certification of filemaker developers... it hardly (ratio 3 to 13) touches relational design approaches, compared to the attention given to avoid wrong deployment that in the end can prove bad for Filemaker Inc.'s reputation as such.

I don't know if it the same in you neck of the woods, but it's taught in business schools here, that you can get away with inner inconsistencies for some time - but the outer relations are life or dead for an organizations fate - this explains the biased attention in the curriculum for developers ...eagerly hoping that developers pick up normalization by reasoning instead.

--sd