[P1] The Mac Rules

[Jack Rodgers]

On Jan 13, 2004, at 2:13 AM, Tom R. no spam wrote:

> Very cool.  But to be picky (midnight and all that :-) ) ,
> sounds like it is a Filemaker standalone being used to host
> clients, rather than "Filemaker Server"?

You are right. I should have used a little s for server. Any Filemaker 
application (4,5,6 and others?) can host (act as a server) other 
Filemaker clients. However, only 10 or less clients will work 
acceptably well. Over ten and the 'server' begins to bog down.

> I'm waiting for when one can do this from a USB flash drive,
> and with actual FMP Server.  Plug in the flash drive to
> whatever WLAN computer is convenient, take the server home
> in your pocket at night.

I could have just as easily used a 128 Meg CF+card rather than the 
Microdrive. I would imagine many people are taking home their employees 
applications in this manner. Of course if it is one's own business, 
then one is only violating the terms of the license as Filemaker Server 
is only licensed to one mac. There is only one advantage for using 
Filemaker Server in such a case, and that would be the automatic 
backups since Filemaker standalone doesn't do these, although they 
could be scripted.


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