Comments on: REVIEW: FileMaker Pro 11 http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/review-filemaker-pro-11/ IT Thought Leadership Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:09:30 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Alex Campbell http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/review-filemaker-pro-11/comment-page-1/#comment-7196 Alex Campbell Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:55:39 +0000 http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/?p=7305#comment-7196 While it is true that FileMaker was only available on Macs for seven years, those years were '85 to '92. It is a bit of a stretch to say that "a Windows version is now also available" since the last *9* versions of FileMaker over the past 18 years have run on Windows. In fact, FileMaker has been on Windows longer than Microsoft Access has been around (FileMaker Sept 1992 vs Access Nov. 1992) "Still very popular on the Mac platform a Windows version is now also available, with a common graphical interface to simplify the task of defining, creating and using databases to support a variety of tasks and applications." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filemaker_Pro#History" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filemaker_Pro#Histor...</a> "In September 1992, Claris released a multiplatform version for both the Mac and Windows." <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_access" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_access</a> "Microsoft released Access version 1.0 on 13 November 1992, ..." While it is true that FileMaker was only available on Macs for seven years, those years were '85 to '92. It is a bit of a stretch to say that "a Windows version is now also available" since the last *9* versions of FileMaker over the past 18 years have run on Windows. In fact, FileMaker has been on Windows longer than Microsoft Access has been around (FileMaker Sept 1992 vs Access Nov. 1992)

"Still very popular on the Mac platform a Windows version is now also available, with a common graphical interface to simplify the task of defining, creating and using databases to support a variety of tasks and applications."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filemaker_Pro#Histor...
"In September 1992, Claris released a multiplatform version for both the Mac and Windows."

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"Microsoft released Access version 1.0 on 13 November 1992, …"

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