My gripe is that you need to be able to be a programmer extremely well-versed and experienced with FM’s commands and such to get it all working. From my own experience and what I’ve seen and read, FMP can do everything anyone might ever need, whatever your particular business and needs are. I’m not sure what you mean by one trick pony. It’s moving away from being just a one trick pony:
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Though it has been very successful, FileMaker still commands only a very small fraction of the database market share: Claris FileMaker - Market Share, Competitor Insights in Relational DatabasesĬheck Claris FileMaker software market share in 2022, top Claris FileMaker technology alternatives & competitors in Relational Databases & customer insights.įrom what I read recently, Claris has begun wooing third party developers to build more apps for FileMaker.
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Now that I’m retired I only have two FileMaker databases I cannot live without.īut when it comes to Apple/Claris, I suspect this free giveaway for single users of what has once been a very significant revenue stream is a harbinger of what might be greater things to come…maybe a buildout of services to make Claris competitive with Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, Google Cloud Services, Oracle, MySQL, etc…especially Salesforce, who focuses on small businesses equally as well as mega large corporations. It’s terrific news for me too! Not long ago I posted about how I need to replace my very ancient Intel version MacBook Pro, and how problematic it would be for me to justify spending $$$$$$$ for a new version of FileMaker.
But then, businesses have more interest in $$$-friendliness than user-friendliness. They could have done the Claris split-off thing with FM, but continued developing their simpler version for “the rest of us.” Mentioned above is a piece about the future of Claris. I’m upset with Apple for having d/c’d AppleWorks and its database. As I said, Ninox may be adequate, as might some of the others mentioned here. FMP has been available on that platform for quite a while). IMO there’s no program on a par with FMP, so nothing can wholly replace it (I’ve never used Windows, so I can’t say whether there’s anything over there. It’s not as user-friendly as it’s touted to be. I recently bought Ninox, which is cheap and is supposed to be able to do what I’d want, but I haven’t yet had the time to learn it properly, and so far I’ve had no success. I have no need for connectivity or such, and won’t use the cloud for patient information.) (My main problem is with portals, which could elegantly sort and provide exactly what I need for infinite scenarios, but I can’t get it right and I’ve pretty much given up. Besides, their pricing has become ridiculous, even for me, who can write it off. Why? It can do everything anybody might imagine for such a program, but it’s become very user-unfriendly, so damn complex that, experienced as I am, now a developer’s expertise is needed - which I don’t have and am not interested in learning. I’ve got FMP19 now, but I actually stopped using it a few years ago.
For my medical practice + teaching + supervision I started using databases (1984 or so) with AppleWorks, then BeagleWorks, and when FM came out, I got FM1, discovered the wonders of relational databases, and kept using and updating it.
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