
Then that would be something to be proud of. Integrate with iCloud (competing with Amazon and Google offerings), and server-based commercial databases, such as Oracle. Hire top experts to design and implement such a system correctly and cleanly leaving no remnants of the old Filemaker (there's nothing there worth keeping). Then, OpenOffice? Another mediocre attempt at creating a PC-based RDBMS.įilemaker should be scrapped. The last release allows one to push an Access application to a server, but you cannot use most "strengths" of the Access system. MS Access is far superior, and it's still a mediocre product that gets worse with age, adding bloat to bloat, with each release.


It has and I guess always will be an expensive commercial product that is no more than a first year computer science class project without the input from professor telling them how to separate the relational database subsystem from the view of the database contents, or instructing them on relational database theory. It's design and implementation shows a thorough lack of knowledge of relational database theory and practice. I've played with Filemaker over the years and have always come away not only disappointed but outraged.
