<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hi y'all</div><div><br></div><div>Open source?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_database_management_systems">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_database_management_systems</a></div><div><br></div><div>The specs from VCAA do not seem to preclude the use of some of these.... Just which one?</div><div>Why would we want to pay exorbitant sums of money for microsloth stuff that does not even work as advertised? Actually that could make a good case study for ITApps</div><div>Don't know about you but I hate being ripped off.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><div><br></div><div>Andrew Shortell</div><div>Educator</div><div>CRC Melton</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:shortell@get2me.net">shortell@get2me.net</a> (lists)</div><div><a href="mailto:andrew@get2me.net">andrew@get2me.net</a> (personal)</div><div>@acsbear (twitter)</div><div>VITTA CoM member</div><div>Skype: ashortell</div><div><br></div><div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div><br>On 16/01/2013, at 12:08 PM, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Hi Don. Filemaker has changed its licensing scheme. It used to be $99 per licence (concurrent users). Now they want some hideous amount of money per seat. If I had to upgrade my Filemaker licence, I'd be looking for alternatives now.<div>
<br></div><div style="">Another bullet in the foot decision...</div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 January 2013 12:01, Watson, Donald R <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:watson.donald.r@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">watson.donald.r@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I taught IT Apps for the first time in 2012 and found using MS Access for the database aspects to be unnecessarily complicated. I am trying to convince my school to fork out for a Filemaker volume license (30 seats) but my techies are quoting
me ridiculous prices. Can anyone give me an idea of what is fair and reasonable for a Filemaker volume license. What sort of deal we should be asking for?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sale College<u></u><u></u></p>
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