Why use Filemaker 8.5?

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I am the kind of guy who likes everything organized and in one place. My original plan was to use mysql and a locally running installation of Drupal to track everything from advertising ROI to logging content changes on websites, but that involved building modules. And what I really lack is time.

I did play around with the idea of using Filemaker 7.0 but since all of my business involves the internet, I trashed that idea. I use the software at my day job and know its ease of use to power ratio is huge. You can get started right away creating databases as long as you have a plan in place. Scripting Filemaker takes a while especially if you have been writing object oriented PHP code. But once I went back to my procedural spaghetti coding past, its a snap.