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1. Comment - FileMaker's next personal database for Mac OS X enters beta

   (Nov 19, 2007 - 2:14 AM)

   Firstly, Bento is not in the same league as Access - Microsoft's product is excellent, and straddles the professional and personal database world very well. Secondly, I feel that it is necessary to share my unhappiness with the Filemaker company with respect to its support for FM Pro under Leopard.
   
   I have Filemaker Pro 8.5 on my Intel MacBook Pro. I have not upgraded to version 9.0 as I did not see many advantages in doing so, and the upgrade price for us in Australia at least is high. Version 9 is an incremental upgrade and not a quantum leap warranting upgrade pricing.
   
   I now learn that Filemaker Pro 8.5 is not Leopard compatible and the company - a subsidiary of Apple - will not be releasing any patches/updates to any release prior to version 9.0.
   
   I am now left with an expensive piece of software that will not run at all under Leopard. I am now held captive of the very steep upgrade prices demanded by Filemaker if I choose to remain with their product.
   
   Goodbye Filemaker - no thanks for your appalling treatment of customers