FILEMAKER MOBILE 1ST DATABASE FOR WINDOWS, MAC OS AND PALM(R)
Sep 06, 2000 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- (Full text of a statement. Contact details below.)
PASADENA Sept 6 PRNewswire-AsiaNet - Extending its world-renowned database software into the burgeoning Palm Economy, FileMaker, Inc. today announced FileMaker Mobile for the Palm OS platform, an easy-to-use companion to FileMaker Pro 5 that will allow a user to transfer and synchronize data between FileMaker Pro databases on Windows and Mac OS systems and Palm Powered(TM) handhelds.
FileMaker Mobile, scheduled to ship this winter, is designed on a simple load and go mobile user model: an individual user simply selects and loads the FileMaker data they require from their desktop computer to the Palm OS handheld. Later, the data on the handheld may be re-synched via the Palm HotSync(R) technology with the individual's single-user FileMaker Pro database on the desktop computer.
"FileMaker Mobile is a first step in the company's broader mobile database strategy, which is to give individual and workgroup FileMaker Pro database users access to their FileMaker databases wherever they may go," said FileMaker, Inc. president Dominique Goupil.
The new solution was previewed to about 1,300 corporate in-house and independent developers gathered last week at the FileMaker Developer Conference in Palm Desert, CA. It will be shown publicly at DEMOmobile 2000 in Pasadena, CA., today and at Go Mobile in Las Vegas, NV, Sept. 10-13.
"FileMaker's mobile database software adds a great and compelling solution to the enterprise applications available for the Palm OS platform," said Chuck Yort, Vice President of Business and Government at Palm, Inc. "The ability to gain access through a handheld computer to vital enterprise data from companies like FileMaker is an important benefit for increasingly mobile workgroups."
The company said that FileMaker Mobile will be priced under $100 (U.S. suggested retail price). System requirements for FileMaker Mobile for the Palm OS platform are not available at this time.
Today users are already browsing and updating their FileMaker Pro databases wirelessly using PDAs such as the Palm VII and Internet-enabled smart phones via third-party solutions (see details at www.filemaker.com). In addition, FileMaker's built-in Instant Web Publishing feature also lets users, with one mouse click, share databases on the intranet or the Internet for access from anywhere in the world.
FileMaker is a leading provider to the growing Web-publishing and workgroup database markets. FileMaker lets departments and teams create databases to manage and track projects, assets and people. Its award-winning FileMaker line of database software provides relational power, instant and custom Web publishing and legendary ease-of-use. FileMaker, Inc. is the database software subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL chart, msgs).
NOTE: FileMaker is a trademark of FileMaker, Inc. registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owner.
Palm OS is a registered trademark and Palm and Palm Powered are trademarks of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries.
SOURCE FileMaker, Inc.
CONTACT: Kevin Mallon of FileMaker, Inc., 408-987-7227, or kevin_mallonfilemaker.com, or Customer Phone Line, 800-325-2747
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