[FX.php List] For those of you with access to the FileMaker 9 ETS

[Dale Bengston]

If you're part of the ETS program, you shouldn't be posting about  
stuff that's confidential under you NDA.

Since there is a page up on FMI's public web site about the coming of  
activation, I guess activation isn't confidential. I don't use  
Windows, so I'm blissfully unaware of the hassles of activation. Or  
more likely, re-activation if a hard drive crashes or something. I  
guess it's like voicemail systems: they're all annoying and some are  
unusable. I won't pass judgement about it except to say it's a  
business decision made by FMI. I'm sure they have their reasons.  
Also, FMI has stated that activation does not apply to VLA customers,  
for what it's worth.

http://filemaker.com/support/activation.html

I'm not in the ETA program this time, so I"m not in the loop. On the  
other hand, I'm also not bound by NDA so I can opine away. Based on  
some of the rumors and heresay floating around out there, I'll make  
this guess: The activation stuff is really all about offering a free  
thin client with limited capability. Then if you buy a license and  
activate it, it becomes a full FMP client. This allows FMI to  
penetrate more places with a free thing, that people will get hooked  
on and buy a license. It also allows customers of FMI to distribute a  
crippled thin client to certain groups of users without having to buy  
a million licenses.

Again, this is my own speculation, and is not based on any insider  
knowledge. So if I'm wrong, I was just speculating. If I'm right, you  
heard it here first.

Dale


On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> Please check and make sure you report if the filemaker files can or
> cannot be unicode characters, I remember in FileMaker 5.5 Server for
> Linux, filenames using characters outside the lower 127 ASCII
> characters made a mess.
>
> Hmm and will FX.php still work?
>
> BTW Will anyone ever convert to 9?
> How are FMI going to trick people into this?
> I hear there is extreme nazi logging( aka activation. )
>
> Will there be a Linux version this time around?
> I need scalable systems now...
>
> ggt667
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