

Inflexible: it does what it does well, but if you need more your out of luck for the most part.Built in support for importing exporting excel, cvs, tab-formatted.Has some neat built in tricks like built in graphs, tab controls, web viewers.Changing field/database/script names after the fact is free.

For the most part, drag and drop programming.Anyone with access can edit the program.There are many plugins available to extend functionality.Cross-platform (Mac OS X, Windows, iOS).Easy to deploy locally, turn on sharing and connect from another client.Here are the pros and cons of using Filemaker Pro vs PHP/MySQL/HTML in my experience. Comparing the two, they both have pros an cons. It's like you have MySQL, PHP, HTML and your editor put together in a GUI. They're both in the same category of software, they're integrated programming environments. Calling Filemaker Pro, Access for the Mac is kind of like saying, Mac OS X is Windows for the Mac.
