Subj : Re: BBS Software Timeout
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Apr 13 2023 12:46 am

  Re: Re: BBS Software Timeout
  By: Dumas Walker to KURT WEISKE on Wed Apr 12 2023 06:38 pm

 DW> I am curious as to what Filemaker is.

Filemaker is/was a simple database put out originally for Mac, but eventually made cross-platform. It let you drag and drop fields and was multi-user. When they first started out, Filemaker needed a copy on each client PC. Later, they added a web component, so you could hit the filemaker server with a web browser.

It was easy to use but didn't scale well, so lots of user departments would throw a quick DB together, then complain to IT when it fell over after too many users.

I have a friend who was a Filemaker consultant, one of his biggest clients was Oracle. Don't tell anyone.
--- SBBSecho 3.20-Win32
 * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/700)

.