What’s your problem? FileMaker 7

I’ve got a soft spot in my heart for [FileMaker](http://www.filemaker.com/)  – it’s a very simple database, it’s easy to set up and manage, and I’ve still got a significant chunk of my data stored in FileMaker databases.

In my humble opinion, FileMaker 4 was the last version worth paying any money for. Version 5 was only done so that they could get the users (us) to pay for them to rewrite the code in C from Pascal (or some such thing – there were no new features). I don’t know what version 6 was about (was there a 6?). FileMaker Inc is also the winner of the Jurgen Schaub Award For Dumbass Slogans award for their What’s Your Problem? FileMaker. At the time (FileMaker 5), my problem was FileMaker and its absolute flakiness running on my servers.

Anyway, FileMaker 7 has been released. They rewrote the relational database engine, and it’s (according to the press release) way more robust. I’ve moved on from FileMaker to MySQL for big projects, so I really don’t have a way (or a need) to test this new robustness. I just hope it’s as good as they say it is, for the sake of the developers who still rely on it.