FileMaker Server reported the release of its latest key solution - FileMaker Server 7 Advanced (www.filemaker.com). Virtually, the new product represents an enhanced version of FileMaker Server 7, a solution that was designed to provide desktop and web clients with advanced web publishing and connectivity options for shared solutions management. The improved version of the solution adds numerous capabilities to its existing features.
The improved power of FileMaker Server 7 now enables the concurrent hosting for up to 100 web-based clients and 250 desktop clients within one easy-to-use software application. Furthermore, customers are now given the chance to integrate FileMaker databases with other applications through the use of industry standard connectivity options, including XML, ODBC* and JDBC.
FileMaker Server 7 Advanced comes to give users the exclusive ability to create a web version of their FileMaker database with a few clicks and no modifications and then easily share it with up to 100 users via a browser. When browsing the database, the Web users will find out the intuitive interface of FileMaker with no need for any complementary software use.
Through FileMaker Server 7 Advanced customers are offered Custom Web Publishing, which delivers rich, web-based applications. The newly built-in Site Assistant wizard can be employed by users for serving FileMaker Pro data to web sites. As an alternative, customers can as well work with such web design tools as Dreamweaver MX from Macromedia.
The latest version of FileMaker Server 7 runs on Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server, Windows 2000 Server SP4, and Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition. It supports both Apache and IIS web servers. The suggested listed price for the solution is US$2,499. FileMaker Server 7 owners are offered a special pricing level. They can upgrade to FileMaker Server 7 Advanced with the purchase of the FileMaker Server 7 Option Pack, priced at $1,500.
