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Re: FileMaker 17 Released Today

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On 2018-05-19 08:34:01 +0000, Christoph L. Kaufmann said:
> DipStick <dipstick@dingleberry.org> schrub:
>> 
>> All this time I didn't realize Filemaker Inc was owned by Apple.  That
>> explains the good Mac support!
> 
> Beware of any new Mac OS - your Filemaker won't work any more.

Not true. Older versions of FileMaker Pro can work on newer versions of 
macOS, but like pretty much every other piece of software, there is a 
limit (the most obvious being that 68K versions won't work on Intel 
Macs, at least not with an emulator).

Until my Mac died on me, I was using FileMaker 5 from MacOS 9 (maybe 8) 
through to MacOS X 10.2, and making standalone solutions to run on 
various versions of Windows through to Windows 8 and probably Windows 
10 (since the organisation hasn't complained to me about them not 
working even though they have upgraded).



> With a new free MacOS every year and customers prompted to update by apple,
> Filemaker has trouble updating.

You're not forced to upgrade the OS. It's your choice.



> Windows OS are better in supporting a variety of Filemaker version.
> Filemaker looks horribly on Windows, however :-(

That one is true, for some peculiar reason I've never bothered to look 
into. Probably at least partially due to gamma differences in the 
displays.



> Filemaker Inc. is managed by the Apple's finance dept, i.e. the only
> contact they ever have is every two months when Filemaker has to
> report and justify why they haven't doubled their earnings yet.

FileMaker Inc is a totally separate, spun-off business. It's owned by 
Apple, but runs independently. FileMaker's earnings are not included in 
Apple's annnual financial reports.

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