[mbreese]

I don’t use Windows, so Access isn’t part of the MS Office equation for me (on a Mac). However, I’d very much like to have a simple database that I could use instead of tracking certain things in Excel.

So... I can completely understand why someone would be interested in making a more universal solution for this very common problem.

[wrs]

The Mac equivalent (for decades now) is FileMaker. Which, now that I look at it for the first time in a long while, seems to run on Windows and the web as well. [1]

[1] https://www.filemaker.com/products/filemaker-pro-advanced/

[mbreese]

Yeah, I’m aware of FileMaker. We actually use it a lot at my job, but I don’t because I can’t access it remotely from a Linux server. Not sure if that’s a quirk with the FileMaker server security we have or a lack of support.

I also tend to avoid it because it’s halfway in between Access and a real SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, etc). But also — have you seen how expensive it is? If you want an individual license, it’s >$500. Or you can get a subscription per user per month.

FileMaker seems like one of those applications that Apple has never really known quite what to do with.