So Where's the Punchline? - aperlson

I usually look forward to your reviews and rants about overpriced software. They are often very entertaining.

However, FileMaker is in the relatively unusual position of simultaneously catering to both individual and corporate customers; to both end-users and a large, vocal community of database developers; to both database novices and experts; and to those of us who work in Mac, Windows, and cross-platform environments. As a result, it's not difficult to find valid things to complain about -- just pick the user community cross-section that you identify with and you are bound to find something you don't like about some aspect of the product line and they way that it has evolved over the past 24 years.

Instead of doing that, you choose to make up stories about the product update cycle. Major FileMaker version revisions come out about every 12-18 months. Frugal individual and corporate customers typically skip every other version unless a newly added feature lights up their world, so this stuff about soaking consumers with "major upgrades every few months" makes you sound woefully misinformed (and perhaps a bit nutty).

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Saturday, January 10 2009 @ 02:36 AM PST

Filemaker is a joke - agape8ring

Sounds like an Access Developer losing clients to FileMaker.

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Saturday, January 10 2009 @ 07:14 AM PST

Filemaker is a joke - zipper555

I don't understand why someone would post blatantly false information? If you don't like the software or product, post something that is useful such as the pros and cons - not inaccurate accusations.

Here are the release dates for all the major versions in the last 10 years....

FileMaker 5 - Sept 1999
FileMaker 5.5 - April 2001
FileMaker 6.0 - Sept 2002
FileMaker 7.0 - March 2004
FileMaker 8.0 - Aug 2005
FileMaker 8.5 - Jan 2006
FileMaker 9.0 - July 2007
FileMaker 10.0 - Jan 2009

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Wednesday, July 15 2009 @ 07:51 PM PDT