FileMaker 9 released

You'd be forgiven for thinking, especially reading our coverage and stories elsewhere, that the only new product to come out of Apple, Inc. in the past two weeks was some sort of bizarre chimera mutant love child of an iPod and a cellphone. Not true! Hardworking and underappreciated subsidiary FileMaker has lovingly crafted version 9 of its namesake desktop database, to the joy and glee of DB geeks near and far.

Version 9 continues the trend of power-user upgrades for FileMaker, adding dramatically improved SQL integration with MSSQL, MySQL and, Oracle back ends; there's also a code-free PHP setup tool in FileMaker Server for database-powered web pages at an instant. More than 30 new features in total are gracing the FM website, so by all means check it out. Upgrades start at $179 for FileMaker Pro.

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Source: http://www.filemaker.com/company/newsroom/releases/1303210.h…

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Clark Goble

I have FM6 - does the upgrade fee cover that? I don't want to buy the upgrade if it doesn't work with the version I have. (I just had that happen with Photoshop unfortunately)

July 11 2007 at 11:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

OlsonBW

I just wish there was an affordable home version of this software.

July 11 2007 at 3:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

frogbat

mmm interesting - will defo give it a go and might add it to next year's purchasing list if it delivers

July 11 2007 at 11:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steven

Now there's a option of live connections with SQL databases. This should have been implemented in FIlemaker 7, but okay it's finaly there. Wow! This puts FM back in the spotlights, because you can create userinterfaces with the ease of Filemaker to manipulate data in SQL. I've tried the demoversion and works realy well.
We'll probably see a lot of FM solutions comming out the next few months.

July 11 2007 at 10:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply