filePro Users in Georgia?

[Fairlight]

At Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:11:19PM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Transpower was observed uttering:
> I, too, find this very annoying.  I've spent many years mastering both
> filePro and FileMaker, and so it's very discouraging when most of the
> job offers specify SQL Server or Oracle.  Actually, it's more than
> annoying, it's disgusting.  These companies are clueless.

That's a blanket generalisation that is bound to be proven false in a fair
amount of cases.

Perhaps they simply need something more scalable than fP, as well as less
specialised.  Read: Something they can get anyone decently qualified
and looking for a job as a DBA/programmer to do, rather than someone
that's been mired in the same product for 20 years no matter how many
miracles they can work with said product--people of which there are a very
limited supply by comparison.  If you were putting together (or massively
extending) an fP solution these days, you'd be hard pressed to be able
to hire -one- person that's actually qualified to do it well, and that
one person can only do so much so quickly--even with RAD tools.  You can
easily fill lots of seats around the project's conference table by using
better-known industry-standard products at the core of the project, and do
a massive job fairly quickly.  Might cost a tonne, but if they have the
money and reason to do it, that's their CFO's problem.

I won't even start on the interoperability issues with fP--I'll leave
that to Walter, since he's been carrying that torch quite nicely lately.
They're hardly state secrets (or new) anyway.

It may be discouraging and disappointing, but it's also reality.  I find
that's often the primary definition of reality, actually.

mark->