Revolution as front-end to FM Pro?

[mluka]

Hi, all.

Is anyone on the forum actually using Revolution as a front-end (user interface) to a FM Pro database?

Thanks!

[Søren Dyhr]

I think Bill Merriot is:

http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/april/issue24/newsletter1.php

http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue25/newsletter3.php

http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue26/newsletter3.php

--sd

[mluka]

Thanks, Søren.

Good links.

Doesn't seem to be much interest in Revolution in this community. Maybe I'll have better luck in the Revolution forums?

Thanks for your response.

[Genx]

Its not that there isn't much interest in revolution, It's that there's not much interest in using it as a sole front end to a FileMaker server based file... which costs around 5,000 if you want to use odbc, when you could just as easily make a MySQL database which has much better data integrity.

[Søren Dyhr]

Where I perhaps can see some point in it, is where you originally thought you could get away with IWP'ing a solution, but later have gotten annoyed by the performance, which still lacks something to be desired, eventhough you've spend months tuning the html down to ...next to nothing - your mindset is solely filemaker'ish - and do not trust migration-tools might catch all your crincles, in an attempt to convert a solution to say mySQL.

Say your goal is to run a webshop, here is it perhaps very convenient to send a CD-rom to the customers.

--sd