5 stars (The Best Database Management System Money Can Buy) - Don't take my word for it, I'm biased. Check out the independent performance and price/performance figures at the Transaction Processing Council's site, www.tpc.org. SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition simply blows the competition out of the water. For both performance and price, no other solution makes business or technical sense on the Windows platform. I've used this product in production and development since the beta 1 release (that's how stable it is, even then) back in mid-December 1999, and I can only say that it is reliable, very, very fast, highly scalable and easy to administer. Plus, independent productivity assessments have shown it is 3-4 times faster to get something done in SQL Server than it's nearest rival. That's a lot of consultancy bills saved! I've been a Senior DBA/Software Project Manager for seven years now, and I'd not even consider another relational database system now, because nothing gets even close. A mature product which gets better with every release. Recommended. 5 stars (OLAP functions rock) - The data mining is really cool for data warehousing. No one else has this stuff right now. 1 stars (terrible) - this product is terrible. the studio graphical tools are very poor and smp support is not so good. ... Microsoft :: Database (ODBC) :: Development :: Programming :: Computer software (programs) :: :: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (25-client)
5 stars (Dual Platform) - Previous produt from Filemaker (version 6Dev) is overall satisfactory. Even if the way of building tabs might take some work, other improvements do largely compensate for this weakness. To avoid the "flicker" one has just to be precise to the pixel in the placement of the layout elements. And FM does offer tools to do so even in version 6! Previous versions and information from Filemaker Inc. clearly state that the intaller is dual platform, Mac AND Windows on the same disk. So, unless amazon is marketing a special version this product should also work for Mac computers. 5 stars (Great Development Tool) - Now that you've read the previous 0 star rating, (tab buttons - give me a break), realize that FileMaker 7 is a great database development platform. Just a few of the upgrade's improvements: No File Size Limit (that's a heck of a lot of recipies Bob). The days of needing to migrate when a file hits the 2 Gig file size wall are OVER. Your database can grow to fill the largest hard drive a computer can support. Multiple data tables per file. Improved browser support of buttons and scripts through instant web publishing feature. Improved security. And if one is really worried about lining up their "tab buttons" on layouts, FileMaker offers a free 30 day evaluation for download from their website. In fact, the only negative comment I can make is that the Server version won't be available until this summer. 1 stars (Developer edition is an oxymoron) - I purchased and installed this product and ran into a brick wall, that precludes its use as a serious development tool. My real rating is 0 stars. Filemaker does not use tab controls. It gets around this shortcoming by requiring that a separate layout be designed for each tab. Importantly this is not just for the information on the tab, BUT FOR THE WHOLE COTTON-PICKIN layout!!! Then when a user clicks on the tab "button", a new layout is repainted over the old. Even though Filemaker provides... Filemaker Inc :: Database (ODBC) :: Development :: Programming :: Database (Databases) :: Computer software (programs) :: :: FileMaker Developer 7
