Filemaker Vs Access

[Atlas]

I'm dealing with a client aiming to expand a small Filemaker 6 project to
Filemaker 7 (never used neither).
Did recently developed a small client/server project with MS Access 2003 +
MS SQL Server 2000.

Does anyone of you out there that knows both products and can trackdown
biggest differnces between the two, major higlights and drawbacks?

Thanks

 

[Larry Linson]

There was a discussion not long ago in the comp.databases.ms-access
newsgroup but it quickly degenerated, as most of these do into a "my
database is better than your database" argument. That one, thankfully, did
stop short of becoming an out-and-out flamewar.

One thing is clear -- the two products have a different "paradigm"; that is,
you can do many things that end up with similar results, but the things you
do to attain the result are a world apart. Just from lurking in that other
discussion, I'd say if you are experienced with Access, but not with
Filemaker, you may not want to take on a project because you'll spend a lot
of time spinning your wheels trying to figure out why the "Access way"
doesn't work in FileMaker. There seems to be no direct equivalent in
FileMaker to Event code, on which we heavily rely in Access.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP