[X4U] What about Filemaker Pro 6?

David Grieve dgrieve at cfl.rr.com
Wed Aug 17 05:40:02 PDT 2005


If you have to move away from FM6, what difference does it make if you 
move to FM 8 (which will probably be out soon). Sounds like you have a 
good business!

Peter Payne wrote:
> I realized to my horror that Filemaker might try to get cute and not  
> make a universal binary for Filemaker Pro 6, its most popular version  
> ever, in the hopes of forcing people to upgrade to FM7 or a future  
> version. This will be TERRIBLE, because I've got such a complex  system 
> in place (15 computers in Japan and 5 in San Diego all running  FM6, 
> with databases both locations access on a third party server.  Updating 
> all of these to Filemaker 7 would be impossible, and if  Filemaker 
> doesn't make a universal version of 6, I'll be forced to  explore moving 
> away from Filemaker (sob, I love it so much).


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