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Apple Subsidiary FileMaker Returns to 1980s Name Claris Following Stamplay Acquisition
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My first guess was about the recent anticompetitive claims and perhaps moving the preinstalled iWork apps back out to Claris giving it less preferential treatment on the App Store. But I’m not sure that makes sense myself.
In many ways Visual Basic was a clone of HyperCard but implemented in a more programmer friendly manner. I got my start in software in the early 90s with several HC stacks. Ah, the good old days.
Return FileMaker back to the $99 price range.
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I keep an older version of Pages installed to open old AppleWorks documents.
My entire grade 7 class learned how to make interactive HyperCard stacks, it was just friendly period.
LibreOffice has a basic import facility.
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/ques...works-documents-text-spreadsheet-and-drawing/
I learned mail merges and spreadsheet functions as a kid, thanks to how easy the ClarisWorks suite was compared to Office. When it was rebranded as AppleWorks, it lost its appeal to me, especially as the Mac versions of Office apps were becoming more like their Windows counterparts.
Ah, but the dogcow was Clarus, not Claris...
LOL. Like that will ever happen.
FMI, or Claris now, I guess, doesn't care about former devs, small businesses, or casual users who have been priced out of the app. It has long been full bore chasing the big licenses, and recurring revenue streams.
I used to work for a small company that ran on FMP, which gave rise to another small company offering the internal FMP tools we developed to others in the industry. I don't think it would be nearly as easy to do that today.
The funny thing is that underneath all the remodels and renovations that have taken place over the years, opening up a recent copy of FMP reveals the same old core, in both good and bad ways.
I'm planning a new Mac soon, which means I'll have to abandon FMP v12, and some databases that date back to v2.1. I'm certainly not going to pay $300-500 for a current copy that will run on 10.13-10.15, which would be overkill anyway, and there don't seem to be easy, legit options to pay less.
Yes! To this day, there are some things I could do in MacDraw that can’t be done in Illustrator without spending extra money on plugins. Little things like making the ruler be 1’=1”, for example, and make drawings to scale easily.
Anyone with some time to kill wanting to know about pre-Filemaker Claris, ClarisWorks (not originally a Claris development) or just the early days of Mac application development in general, should read A Brief History of ClarisWorks by Bob Hearn, one of ClarisWorks' developers.
(ClarisWorks had a level of integration that MS Office or iWork still can't match. Instead of being a half-dozen programs with the ability to link to or embed each other's files, it was one program with a half-dozen modules — drawing and word processing and spreadsheets and such — that could all be active in a single document.)
(ClarisWorks had a level of integration that MS Office or iWork still can't match. Instead of being a half-dozen programs with the ability to link to or embed each other's files, it was one program with a half-dozen modules — drawing and word processing and spreadsheets and such — that could all be active in a single document.)
I'm not a fan of the cannibalistic emaciated PacMan logo
Now that you mentioned Pac-Man, I can’t unsee that Pac-Man in the logo anymore.
I believe LibreOffice, et. al can
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I forgot about that!
Yeah, that's awesome. I wonder if they can give the email app back to them too (it worked so well until Apple messed it up mid-late 2000s).
I love FileMaker but haven't used it for years (since I supported it at a Fortune 100). Maybe our paths will cross one day again.
…and STILL would be. HyperCard made it possible for anyone to program whatever tool they needed for their job. I've never been able to find anything with near the capability, but I'm definitely going to look into LiveCode (thanks, rumpelstiltskin).