{"id":463,"date":"2004-09-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/09\/01\/396\/"},"modified":"2004-09-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T22:00:00","slug":"396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/09\/01\/396\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing FileMaker with Free Software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot discussion &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/08\/31\/0121250\" title=\"Slashdot | Replacing FileMaker with Free Software?\">Replacing FileMaker with Free Software?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>jhealy1024 asks: &#8222;I&#8217;m looking for a way to replace our FileMaker DB solution with an open-source RDBMS. Problem is, FileMaker&#8217;s GUI and report design tools are pretty darn good, and I can&#8217;t find a suitable replacement. Anybody out there have a solution that doesn&#8217;t require me to take a year off to hand-code a replacement solution?&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>UNIX_Meister responds: &#8222;I think there&#8217;s something here that is escaping most of the \/. readers. Filemaker has a nice GUI for creating applications &#8211; RAD type functionality. We&#8217;re not talking about a GUI to manage a mysql database. I&#8217;d like to be able to create an application that uses a database backend quickly. Something like Oracle Forms &amp; Reports of old, or Access, or ??? Think &#8222;glade&#8220; &#8222;mysql\/postgresql&#8220; perl&#8217;s report writing<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking for something like this in the OSS world for years, and in that time, like the author of the article, could have written one.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slashdot discussion &#8211; Replacing FileMaker with Free Software?: jhealy1024 asks: &#8222;I&#8217;m looking for a way to replace our FileMaker DB solution with an open-source RDBMS. Problem is, FileMaker&#8217;s GUI and report design tools are pretty darn good, and I can&#8217;t find a suitable replacement. Anybody out there have a solution that doesn&#8217;t require me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}