This is a new and exciting area of our site.
Here you will find white papers, testimonials and advice
from our staff and from other developers out there who have
become disenchanted with (or have reached the limits of)
their current database development environment and how they
have successfully, painlessly and happily switched to FileMaker
Pro 7 (v7).
Hopefully, once you have weighed all the pros and cons,
you will switch to FileMaker Pro 7, too!
NOTE: It is not our intention that this portion
of our site become an "other application" (4D,
and so on)-bashing site. We simply are very excited about
the FileMaker 7 product line and we want to assist those
who may have come to the limits of their current database
application to successfully migrate to something that is
easier to use, is more powerful and, we feel, has longer
legs...FileMaker Pro 7! Hopefully you will find that the
opinions and comparisons shown here are as fair and unbiased
as they can be.
Why
Switch?
Our take: The FileMaker 7 product line is, simply put, easier,
faster, more powerful, more intuitive, more external-application-friendly,
more Web-enable-able and more cost-effective than anything
else out there. But don't just take our word for it, read
on to the next section to hear from those who have successfully
switched to v7.
Testimonials
and War Stories
Here we will includes links to testimonials and war stories,
tips and tricks to developers in the field who have successfully
converted their database solution from "something else" to
FileMaker Pro 7.
If you would like to share your story, click here to
send us an e-mail. By doing so, you give us permission
to print your words, edited for content, on our site and
in our marketing materials at our discretion.
White
Papers, Tech Briefs and Other Reading Material
- FileMaker, Inc. has two white papers comparing FileMaker
Pro to Microsoft Access:
- COMING SOON! Application
Architects' comprehensive white paper comparing the FileMaker
7 product line to the current version of 4D.
- COMING SOON! Application
Architects' comprehensive white paper comparing the FileMaker
7 product line to the current version of Microsoft Access.
- COMING SOON! Application
Architects' comprehensive white paper comparing the FileMaker
7 product line to the current version of Microsoft SQL
Server.
Tools,
Examples Files and Other Downloads
- .com Solutions has a product that allows easy
migration from many types of databases like Microsoft
Access to FileMaker Pro 7. Find out about it here.
- Stravisoft has a tool called fmSQL Replicator™ which
helps migrate databases from Microsoft SQL Server to
FileMaker Pro. Find out about it here.
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