Re: WebCatalog vs Lasso or Frontier

[Geof Holman <gholman@xxxxxxxx>]

on 11/8/99 1:53 PM, Jeremy Stoltz at jstoltz@xxxxxx wrote:

> I think a lot of people either don't know or overlook the fact that Lasso
> works with more then just FileMaker. It will also work with any ODBC
> database. If you think FMP is too slow then use SQL server or another
> multithreaded database which will meet your needs.
> 
> This also allows people who have outgrown FMP to switch to a different
> database. Not only do they not have to learn a new program they don't even
> have to completely rewrite the existing code, only modify it slightly.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> On 11/8/99 1:11 PM, Seth C. Ganahl at wrote:
> 
>> As for the speed of FileMaker and Lasso, it really depends on your
>> configuration.  If FileMaker has its own CPU then your web solution
>> can be really fast.  Lasso will communicate with any number of remote
>> FileMaker databases, on any number of remote machines via the
>> FileMaker Remote module.  This bypasses FileMaker's 50 database
>> limit, and since Lasso is a multi-threaded application you could
>> theoretically be serving information from thousands of FileMaker
>> databases onto the web.
> 
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