FileMaker Pro 9, for Mac, Windows, and the Web, is used by a huge variety of customers to manage people, projects, assets and more.
750 of the software industry’s most prestigious and authoritative software companies selected FileMaker Pro 9 for excellence in design and development as the Best Database Management Solution for 2008.
“We’re delighted that the CODiE Award judges have recognized the significance, value and quality of FileMaker Pro 9,” said FileMaker president Dominique Goupil in the press release.
The CODiE awards are awarded annually by the SIIA. Over 1,000 applications were received for this year’s CODiE awards.
FileMaker, Inc. develops award- winning database software. Its products include the legendary FileMaker Pro product line for Windows, Mac and the web, and the new Bento personal database for Mac. FileMaker Pro won 48 awards, more than its next eight competitors combined, in the past five years in the U.S., and a total of 129 awards worldwide during this time. Millions of customers, from individuals to large organizations, rely on FileMaker, Inc. software to manage, analyze and share information. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Inc.
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?
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…
megaMe,
Obviously, because they’re ignorant, as plainly evidenced by their platform non-choice.
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.
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!
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)
@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.
Nothing against FileMaker, but they really don’t have much competition, do they?
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.
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.