I’m not deep into the FileMaker development community, but some announcements from Apple subsidiary Claris a few months ago generated quite a bit of interest on TidBITS Talk and should be coming to ...

Remember Claris, the 1987 Apple spin-off that made applications like MacWrite, MacPaint and FileMaker? In 1998, Apple brought all of those products in-house again, with the exception of the low-code ...

Changing FileMaker, Inc's name to Claris shows a certain awareness of Apple history, but possibly not a very complete one. If you've been around Apple for a long time, you're likely to have fond ...

FileMaker Inc., the Apple Inc. subsidiary that offer a Workplace Innovation Platform, announced today at the annual DevCon 2019 developer conference that the company is rebranding itself as Claris ...

Two decades ago, Apple was a troubled company in a time of upheaval. Cofounder Steve Jobs, who had officially returned as interim CEO in September 1997, had a plan to return it to health. And a big ...

FileMaker Pro 19 marks the final time that Claris's venerable database tool will see annual updates. AppleInsider examines the new version, as it moves to rolling releases. Over the last several years ...

FileMaker isn’t going away, but the company that makes it is expanding what it does. FileMaker changed its name to Claris. That might sound familiar as it’s the name the company had when Apple founded ...

In 1987, Apple moved its software products, such as MacPaint and the office suite AppleWorks, into a new subsidiary called Claris. But by 1998, most of Claris' products had either moved back to Apple ...

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