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Claris FileMaker developers are creative thinkers. They’re also business owners, warehouse supervisors, project managers, teachers, healthcare workers, and salespeople. Accessible for anyone. Powerful enough for pros. No limits on your creative potential with Claris FileMaker, the business partners for decades.

Problem solvers: 50.000 developers worldwide are supporting small and medium companies as well as specialists in corporate departments every day.

FileMaker began as an MS-DOS-based computer program named Nutshell – developed by Nashoba Systems of Concord, Massachusetts, in the early 1980s. Nutshell was distributed by Leading Edge, an electronics marketing company that had recently started selling IBM PC-compatible computers.

With the introduction of the Macintosh, Nashoba combined the basic data engine with a new forms-based graphical user interface (GUI). Leading Edge was not interested in newer versions, preferring to remain a DOS-only vendor, and kept the Nutshell name. Nashoba found another distributor, Forethought Inc., and introduced the program on the Macintosh platform as FileMaker in April 1985. When Apple introduced the Macintosh Plus in 1986 the next version of FileMaker was named FileMaker Plus to reflect the new model's name.

Forethought was purchased by Microsoft, which was then introducing their PowerPoint product that became part of Microsoft Office. Microsoft had introduced its own database application, Microsoft File[citation needed], shortly before FileMaker, but was outsold by FileMaker and therefore Microsoft File was discontinued. Microsoft negotiated with Nashoba for the right to publish FileMaker, but Nashoba decided to self-publish the next version, FileMaker 4

FileMaker Cloud
In 2016, FileMaker Cloud was introduced, including a Linux server (CentOS), which was offered exclusively through the Amazon Marketplace. In November 2019, FileMaker Cloud was reintroduced as a software as a service product offered directly from Claris for FileMaker Pro 18.0.3 using FileMaker Server Cloud 2.18 service on Amazon servers, but managed by Claris instead of through the Amazon Marketplace, and making use of the new FileMaker ID authentication.

Claris FileMaker developers are creative thinkers. They’re also business owners, warehouse supervisors, project managers, teachers, healthcare workers, and salespeople. Accessible for anyone. Powerful enough for pros. No limits on your creative potential with Claris FileMaker, the business partners for decades.

Problem solvers: 50.000 developers worldwide are supporting small and medium companies as well as specialists in corporate departments every day.

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