[WEB4LIB] FileMaker Pro 5.0

[Eric Hellman]

Your library downgraded to the $250 limited-users version of FMP. The 
functional equivalent of the old $250 FMP4 is the $1000 FMP5 
"Unlimited".

Workarounds are to go back to version 4 or cough up the $750.


At 7:40 AM -0700 5/11/00, Jennifer Sarber wrote:
>Greetings Everyone;
>
>At the first of the year our library upgraded to FileMaker Pro 5.0v2
>Unlimited.  We publish 23 searchable databases on the web.  Since that
>upgrade several times a month FileMaker Pro will shut itself down and
>give the error message:  "The manimun number of licensed users are
>currently using this copy of FileMaker Pro".
>
>We only have one copy of FileMaker Pro 5.0v2, and we only loaded it on
>one machine.  We do have other versions of FileMaker 3.0 and 4.0 on
>other machines with the correct license requirements.
>
>I have upgraded FileMaker Pro 5.0v2 to 5.0v3, rebuilt the desktop and
>zapped the prams.
>
>I have contacted FileMaker in March, April, and May.  Is anyone else
>having a simular problem?  Does anyone else have any suggestions?
>
>Have a great day,
>Jennifer
>--
>Jennifer Sarber
>Management Information Services
>Indiana State Library
>140 North Senate Avenue
>Indianapolis, IN 46204
>http://www.statelib.lib.in.us

Eric Hellman
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