MacWorld published a story today FileMaker not compatible with Mac OS X Leopard 
. That’s certainly not anything I was looking forward to hearing.
However when checking the link in the story about ‘…a support note posted to FileMaker’s Web site’ that was reported to say:
“We are currently working on Leopard compatibility updates for FileMaker Pro 9, FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced, FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced. At this time FileMaker does not recommend the use of FileMaker 9 products on computers running Mac OS X Leopard,”
….I found that the link to that note was a dead end. That support note was gone and when I searched the FM site for Leopard news I found this Knowledge Base article instead, FileMaker Products and Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) , that then read:
"We continue to test FileMaker 9 products under Leopard. We will have a compatibility announcement when Leopard is released October 26th.
If you would like to be notified when we have additional information, please select the button below.
For notification of FileMaker patches and updates, and other important news, please subscribe to FileMaker News. "
The second statement seems a lot tamer than the first one reported and I guess we’ll only know tomorrow just what the real story is.
I recall a while back that FileMaker 8.5 had Windows Vista issues and an earlier version I don’t recall which had issues for a while with XP and FileMaker Inc. didn’t recommend FM use on Windows machines when they first came out my own testing at the time found the issues weren’t fatal. They we’re just ugly and/or really inconvenient. Still I wouldn’t trust any mission critical applications to run on Leopard until we get the good word from Apple and FileMaker.
Given that FileMaker, Inc. is owned by Apple, Inc. you have to wonder just how did this kind of glitch end up happening?
Revised Thursday, October 25, 2007 ; 9:52 PM:
As soon as I posted this article I was proofing the links I had in it and found that "a support note " that I wrote about as being a dead end link is now back there again and it reporting good news for FileMaker users that FM generally works and there are two known issues:
- The Instant Web Publishing feature does not work.
- On Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5), each language version of FileMaker Pro 9 and FileMaker Pro 9 Advanced works only when the Mac OS System Preference "International Formats Region" is set to a specific region. For example, the English language version of FileMaker works only when the region is United States. It does not work when the region is United Kingdom, or Australia, or France, or any other region. Click here for more information.
Also the new statement reports that :
"FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced currently do not deploy properly on Leopard. We are working on Leopard compatibility updates for FileMaker Server 9 and FileMaker Server 9 Advanced but do not have an estimated availability date at this time."
…but to tell you the truth I don’t know of anyone who’s planning on an opening day adventure into Leopard who’s effected by that although I’m thinking perhaps there are some enterprise level businesses that might not be happy with that news.
Jerrald Hayes is both a Business Management & IT Consultant and a Building & Remodeling Contractor based out of Katonah NY.
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