Filemaker Introduces Bento for Mac

[6163621]

Ah thanks. Will look. Has anyone tried it yet (reviews, etc ?)

 

[El Tel]

Honestly, I get the feeling that to get what I want on the Mac I'm going to have to write the application myself (a terrifying prospect given my programming skills). The advent of Core Data should make this process a lot easier but definitely not a cakewalk.

Maybe you should take a look at Servoy....

 

[CTYankee]

Ah thanks. Will look. Has anyone tried it yet (reviews, etc ?)

Not much different than v1. It is basically a fixed version 1. As of right now there are no plans to fix v1 (loses data, screen refresh issues, and more). There are also some of these data issues in v2.

Bottom line v1 was broken and to get it fixed you have to buy v2. Even then it does not work as advertised (just try adding address information from Mail...shows up in Address Book but not Bento).

 

[MacNeilly]

User comments on Bento 2

To read the opinions of Bento users (rather than gushing magazine reviews), potential purchasers should check the disgruntled posts on versiontracker.com, macupdate.com, macworld.com, etc as well as the Filemaker/Bento forums:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33479&mode=feedback
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/26231/bento
http://forums.macworld.com/thread/106146?start=0&tstart=0
http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/14/filemakers-bento-goes-2-0/#comments
http://forums.filemaker.com/fmbnto/board/message?board.id=contsugother&thread.id=746

Quite a few unhappy purchasers out there!

 

[rajasekhar1242]

can i connect java application with bento

hai,
i want to develop a database application by using java as front end and bento data base as back end. i am searching the related topics on inter net. but i didn't get any positive reply.
pls send me reply to rajasekhar1242@gmail.com

 

[CTYankee]

FYI...Bento is not updated to fix bugs.

http://digg.com/apple/filemaker_announces_it_doesn_t_fix_bugs