
FileMaker on the other hand can go from single user to over 250 simultaneous users with a product called FileMaker Server and no code changes. Large Access databases end up using Microsoft SQL as a backend, often requiring programming changes. It is also supports more users in multi-user mode. FileMaker, while more limited in programmability than Microsoft’s Access database, is by most accounts easier to program. The company claims that there are over 7.5 million of copies of the program in use. FileMaker Inc., claims that FileMaker is the best selling database at retail level.

Many long standing user and developer requests have gone ignored in this upgrade, but some very useful new tools have been added.įirst, a bit of FileMaker background.

FileMaker 6, the latest version of the popular database product is both a welcome improvement and a disappointment.
