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FileMaker ships over 1 million copies

updated 11:45 am EST, Wed March 9, 2005

FileMaker surpasses 1M


today announced that it has shipped more than one million units of FileMaker Pro 7. The company said that it is the No. 1-selling easy-to-use database, FileMaker Pro 7, has also achieved a number of significant milestones, including a record number of customers upgrading from previous versions; over 25 industry and editorial awards (more than the combined total of 7 other workgroup databases); approximately 250 newly Certified FileMaker Developers in less than 12 months; a 15% increase in the number of database developers joining the FileMaker Solutions Alliance; over 25 new independently published books and interactive learning tools for FileMaker Pro 7 users; and more than 500 custom third-party solutions running on FileMaker Pro 7.


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  1. hayesk

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    03/09, 01:31pm | report spam | Reply |

    Good for them

    I really like FM 7. Their underlying engine is so much better than previous versions.

    Now, if they would just update the UI portion. Here's hoping for version 8.

  1. mactalent

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    03/09, 02:46pm | report spam | Reply |

    They could have sold more

    If they had not chnaged the way the product does web hosting they could have done better. I have been developing Filemaker/lasso driven websites for years and FM7 does not support the CDML tags. I have no desire to learn their XSLT language and recode many sites. Many Lasso developers are now going to MySQL. I stick with Filemaker 6 and Lasso for most projects. FM7 Advanced Server at $2500 is prohibitively expensive and only supports 100 users... I don't know what they were thinking going the route they did.

  1. hayesk

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    03/09, 04:17pm | report spam | Reply |

    Re: They could have sold

    Actually, I think they made that change so they can sell more. The web server part of FM6 was amateur and not at all robust.

    Besides, Lasso works with 7 just fine. If you use Lasso tags they work. It's just FM6's built-in CDML that doesn't work.

    Also, FM7 Advanced does cost $2500 but it's much more robust, and that's 100 simultaneous users, not 100 unique IP clients - that's a lot more than FM6 Unlimited could realistically handle without falling over - it's also a lot faster than FM6 Unlimited.

    It's funny how you claim "many Lasso developers are now going to MySQL". If price is their only issue, then yeah, I'm sure some are going to MySQL. But FM7 still gives many features (including security, remote authentication) that MySQL can't. And, Lasso sites still work with FM7 without recoding.

    FM Developers were clamouring for a robust web serving solution. FM6 Unlimited didn't provide it. FM7 Advanced certainly does. Not to mention it can serve FM Clients, ODBC/JDBC, and Web clients from the same server. The previous version could not. MySQL can not without *a lot* of development work.

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