Comparing: Access,Visual Foxpro and Filemaker

From: David Jackson <david.jay.jackson_at_wcox.com>
Date: 9 Mar 2002 16:22:00 -0800
Message-ID: <7f890b9b.0203091622.6bacf015@posting.google.com>

Good day --
This may not be the ideal forum for this queston, but here it goes?

I would appreciate some objecive/subjective opinions or URLs showing comparsions
between MS-Access,Visual Fox Pro and Filemaker?

I've never used any Fox Pro, or Visual Fox Pro. I used M-Access access on a couple different jobs. Recently I been tinkering with a trial version of Filemaker-5.5, and I'm not sure it is truely relational? Or a SQL database? For intance there's no easy why to create a join between 3 tables? Or creating new tables with select into statements? Or is it just me?

The version of Access I used a couple of years ago seems to have been more robust than the current version of FileMaker?

The one advantage seem to be price?
Filemake-5.5 = $239
Filemaker-5.5 Dev = $449
MS-Access2000 = $309
Visual Fox Pro-7.0 = $497

TIA,
David Jackson Received on Sat Mar 09 2002 - 18:22:00 CST