The only people who really know anything about the future of FileMaker
(outside FileMaker Inc workers) are those who were lucky enough to go
to the recent Developer's Conference ... and they've been asked not to
say much, so the rest of us are in "I know nothing, I see nothing"
limbo.  :o(

Helpful Harry                  
"Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships"  ;o)

I tried very hard to get that information out of the Filemaker [Sales] Team
at the recent UK MacExpo but they kept telling me they had no idea.  I tried
to lock them down to a quarter and he said they we're hoping for 1st Quarter
04 but couldn't be sure.   Then i tried to get some info about what is
vapourware and what we really might expect in 7, no joy there either.

Since then i've made the decision not to develop any major new systems in
Filemaker until i hear something that puts my faith back in the company as
you cannot make strategic business decisions with clients when they won't
even give the faintest official roadmap of what changes might expect and how
difficult it will be to upgrade.

Grubber