Re: Any objections to FrontBase?

Deployed a few sites with FrontBase since two year ago and one of them is 
still using daily without any reporting problems.  The version I am using is 
3.xx and frankly, their support and response to queries are amazingly good 
(last one, two years.  Have not tried now.).  Current deployment with Linux 
is also working well.  Yes, I shared the same view and FrontBase may be lost 
its glory, however they have give the enterprise licensing fees FREE (used 
to be more than 40KUSD, if not mistaken).  I have tried it out with my sites 
and the database restoration and backup are wonderful.  This feature is yet 
to be improved in MYSQL (recently tested with latest version.)

I would say if my client does not mind what name-brand of database, I would 
still vote for WO/FrontBase for their supports and ease to use.  My shared 
bits & Good luck!

Cheers

Cheong Hee

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaastra Dennis - WO Lists" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 11:48 AM
Subject: Any objections to FrontBase?


> Dear List,
>
> We are starting a large new WebObjects project. The client does not 
> appear to be worried about name-brand databases. Since FrontBase is  now 
> free, and this project might require multiple deployments, we  thought 
> FrontBase might be a good choice. We have used it until 5  years ago and 
> were happy with it at that time.
>
> A couple of concerns we have is that it may have lost its glory. Do  they 
> still make money from support/consulting to warrant continuing  the 
> development of their product? Will it run on Leopard?Their  website looks 
> very dated with all testimonials from before 2000. Does  it support 64 
> bit? Can you manually set the caching in memory to a  very high amount?
>
> Thanks for any insight you might have.
>
>
> With Kind Regards,
>
> Dennis Gaastra, M.B.A.[sfu.ca], B.Sc.[ubc.ca]
> Chief Technology Officer,
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