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Re: OT: converting Access files
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Þorvarður Davíðsson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:10:23 +0100
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On 16.01.2011, at 01:00, jem cabanes wrote:

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> So I'll try to persuade the member responsible  of the database to use openoffice instead of microsoft, hoping that mac and windows versions are ‘convertible’.

MS Access allows maximal 2 GB pro file and 255 fields, FileMaker Pro on the other hand allows 8 TB and an unlimited number of fields as well as being a cross platform application. I find this a very convincing argument in favor of FMP.


Žorvaršur Davķšsson
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