Re: Comparing: Access,Visual Foxpro and Filemaker
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:23:01 -0500
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What do you need to do with the tool?
"David Jackson" <david.jay.jackson_at_wcox.com> wrote in message
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> 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
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