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<p>I've been tackling similar problems and found a couple of solutions that emk hasn't mentioned... </p> <ol> <li>FileMaker can link to external SQL data sources (ESS) so you can use ODBC to connect to a MySQL (or other) database and share data. You can find more information <a href="http://www.filemaker.com/products/filemaker-pro/sql-data.html" rel="noreferrer">here</a>. we tried it and found it to be pretty slow to be honest</li> <li><a href="http://www.worldsync.com/syncdek/" rel="noreferrer">Syncdek</a> is a product that claims to allow you to perform data replication and data transmission between Filemaker, MySQL and other structured sources. </li> <li>It is possible to use Filemaker's <a href="http://www.filemaker.com/support/technologies/iwp.html" rel="noreferrer">Instant Web Publishing</a> as a web service that your app can then push and pull data through. We found a couple of wrappers for this in <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pyfilemaker/" rel="noreferrer">python</a> and <a href="http://www.filemaker.co.uk/support/technologies/php.html" rel="noreferrer">php</a></li> <li>you can put a trigger in the FileMaker database so that every time a record is changed (or part of a record you are interest in) you can call a web service that updates a MySQL or memcached version of that data that your website can access.</li> </ol> <p>I found that people like FileMaker because it gives them a very visual interface onto their data - it's very easy to make quite large self-contained applications without too much development knowledge. But, when it comes to collaboration with many users or presenting this data in a format other than the FileMaker application we found performance a real problem.</p>
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