spector@cvl.umd.edu (Lee Spector) (03/01/88)
I'm considering getting either Filemaker+ or Reflex+ for a Mac plus with 30 meg hard drive, 1 meg RAM. I need to update a database of cars (approx 1500) and car sales daily, and to produce reports. What would be the salient diffenences between these programs for this application? Thanks in advance... Lee
chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (03/02/88)
>I'm considering getting either Filemaker+ or Reflex+ for a Mac plus >with 30 meg hard drive, 1 meg RAM. I need to update a database of >cars (approx 1500) and car sales daily, and to produce reports. What would >be the salient diffenences between these programs for this application? Reflex+ is stronger in the database side, FileMaker+ is much stronger on report generation and layout. Major word of warning on Reflex+. It's buggy. A store I do business with had all its customer data under Reflex. They 'upgraded' to Reflex+ over the last few weeks, ran into amazing amounts of problems, and finally had to unupgrade because of acknowledged (by the Reflex folks) bugs in the program. No time frame on fixing them, either. They were losing customer records, they were losing data records, they were losing the interactions between them, and they were losing their minds. They're back on reflex and running again, at the loss of about 30 days of database updates. This isn't encouraging to me.... Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment, 1977