>Does FileMaker compete with Visual FoxPro? Or perhaps Access? The only thing I think I know is that it was a database tool for the Mac. Apparently it supports Windows too. I was in the doctor's office the other day and noticed a two-page spread for it in PC World. I thought that was an odd place for a developer tool ad, but it did grab my attention.

It is targetted mostly as and end-user type of database. I have rewritten a couple systems from FileMaker, (as I have from Access). If I was forced (under torture) to use one of the other I might pick FileMaker. I found versions earlier than the current one to be extremely unreliable on a network. I don't know what the current one is like. --- Larry