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OK, so let's say I'd like to try to avoid FileMaker entirely. I get the data from MySQL with PHP. Now what are my options for make pretty reports and invoices with that data? Does PHP have the ability to do fairly complex formatting (involving fonts and EPS graphics) and printing to a...

I'm looking at replacing some or all of our FileMaker databases with MySQL. What are my options for printing invoices, statements, and reports from MySQL? -Dan

Fair enough. I guess what I was looking for was some insight into whether OS X is better than OS9 in terms of carrying multiple loads. -Dan

I'm in the process of upgrading our office's servers to OS X. For the time being, I have two 350 MHz iMacs (with lots of RAM) as servers. I need to provide file sharing, mail, DNS, FileMaker Server databases, and a website. We'd been doing this on three machines: 1) FIle sharing, mail, and...

Beyond the nice GUI interface (and Web Objects), what does OS X Server offer beyond what you get if you set up OS X client as a server? In particular, is the performance better? I'm thinking of upgrading our current server, which is used by about a dozen users for file-sharing, mail, and DNS...

You're right: RAM is cheap these days. And more is always better. But is 128 MB adequate for Apache, php, etc. to do their stuff without compromising performance? -Dan

I'm getting ready to buy a new iMac that will be used as an Apache-based webserver running OS X. It will also be running FileMaker Pro. How much RAM should I install to ensure the best performance? -Dan

Now that FileMaker runs natively under OS X, I'm wondering if there is any way for the Apache web server to talk to a FileMaker database running on the same machine? I'm open to AppleScript, Perl, or other language solutions. -Dan