[Year 12 IT Apps] Filemaker School License

[Andrew Pate]

Hi Andrew
I used Open Office Base last year, as some of my students had Mac's and I wanted a solution that all the kids could go home and do stuff.

I would not make the same choice again.

We (I) found that while most things were fine, and some aspects pretty good, the lack of polish in the final product and the lack of a large community providing answers meant that some more advanced things, particularly with forms and queries were difficult to the point of "just forget it". Of course big learning curve for kids regardless, and for me - dont you love teaching one step ahead, gets the heart pumping.

While Access seems a bit of a napalm to kill a mozzi, there is a massive amount of help around, and the Mac kids - well at our school, there are plenty of PC's in the library! IF they are really desperate, there is VM and Bootcamp.

My two bits, hope it helps.

Andrew Pate
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On 16/01/2013, at 11:15 PM, "Andrew Shortell" <shortell at get2me.net<mailto:shortell at get2me.net>> wrote:

Hi y'all

Open source?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_database_management_systems

The specs from VCAA do not seem to preclude the use of some of these.... Just which one?
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
Don't know about you but I hate being ripped off.

Andrew

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On 16/01/2013, at 12:08 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:

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.

Another bullet in the foot decision...


On 16 January 2013 12:01, Watson, Donald R <watson.donald.r at edumail.vic.gov.au<mailto:watson.donald.r at edumail.vic.gov.au>> wrote:
Hello All,

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?

Don Watson
Sale College


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