title: What Are the Pros and Cons of Filemaker?
body: <p>A potential customer has asked me to look at some promotional flyers for a couple of apps which fall into the contact management / scheduler category.  Both use Filemaker as their backend.  It looks like these two apps are sold as web apps.  At any rate I had not heard of Filemaker in about ten years, so it was surprising to see it pop up twice in the same sitting.  I think it started out as a Mac platform db system.</p>
  
  <p>I am more partial to SQL Server, MY SQL, etc, but before make any comments on Filemaker, I'd like to know some of the pros and cons of the system.  It must be  more than Access for Mac's, but I have never run across it as a player in the client / server or web app arena.</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks
  Mike Thomas</p>