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May 22, 08 - 09:00 am Comment from: Think

It just works.

I still have nightmares about Dbase 4.

if FM is so great, which I believe it to be, then why have most of my windows friends act as though they have never heard of it before?

May 22, 08 - 09:07 am Comment from: jtc

very good app... just wish they had a better way of saving and undoing changes. Gotta get used to it though, before anything major save a copy. Otherwise pretty simple program to learn.

does 4th Dimension still exist? Haven't heard much about it in a decade...

May 22, 08 - 09:17 am Comment from: Fred Mertz

megaMe,

Obviously, because they're ignorant, as plainly evidenced by their platform non-choice.

May 22, 08 - 09:23 am Comment from: LinuxGuyAndMacProdigalSon

jtc said, "very good app... just wish they had a better way of saving and undoing changes. Gotta get used to it though, before anything major save a copy. Otherwise pretty simple program to learn."

Just trigger Time Machine in Leopard when you to save the old version.

May 22, 08 - 09:33 am Comment from: British Mac Head

Did anyone notice that Apple won "Best Education Technology Solution for Productivity/Creativity" for iLife so that's two awards for the combined Apple group of companies but Microsoft didn't win Jack!

May 22, 08 - 09:50 am Comment from: Ampar

Cleetus: http://www.4d.com/index.html

"The US Army runs 4D technology on its main web site (http://www.army.mil).
More than two million schoolchildren and their parents login daily to a 4D-based solution to track their educational progress.
Leading financial institutions such as Bank of America, Fleet Bank and The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. rely on a 4D solution to manage their internal security."

(http://www.4d.com/corporate/history.html)

May 22, 08 - 10:07 am Comment from: HolyMackerel

@jtc

MS including Access with Office Pro has killed off most consumer databases.

When they try to run Access they find it a buggy pain that cannot be accessed by the users with plain Office and give up, assuming all databases are the same. It is a similar story to PowerPoint.

May 22, 08 - 01:08 pm Comment from: alansky

Nothing against FileMaker, but they really don't have much competition, do they?

May 22, 08 - 02:02 pm Comment from: Avoman

Tried FileMaker many years ago but found Panorama by ProVUE to be a lot faster so went with that. Used it to organize data in the avocado breeding program. Still, nice to see that there are good database options for the Macintosh.

May 22, 08 - 02:53 pm Comment from: jocknerd

Just remember these awards are for commercial products. ColdFusion won for Best Web Development platform. I use ColdFusion in my day job and there is no way its better than Django or Ruby on Rails.