FileMaker Pro is coming out with a relational version of the database but will
retain the ease of use and setup as before.  I would imagine that the report
generation and information manipulation would be enhanced.  It is due out 4th
quarter or 1st quarter of next year.

Just food for thought before converting to FoxPro.

chris
Univ of Michigan

 ------ From: Research Administration Discussion Group, Thu, Aug 3, 1995
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Filemaker Pro is a great database system that I used at my previous
institution for:  guidelines files, faculty interests profile, and proposal
tracking.  Databases are very easy to setup.  The office where I worked was
not required to do much reporting from Filemaker database except for
interdepartmental needs.  We did grant reporting from the campus mainframe.

Where I am located right now we are looking at using FoxPro.  FoxPro offers
a great user graphical interface to the database.  Once it is setup it will
be very user friendly.  It is much more complicated than Filemaker Pro to
setup, but it will offer me the report generation and information
manipulation that I need.

If you envision database needs other than just grant/budget tracking, then
I would suggest going with either Filemaker or FoxPro.  Hope that the
information helps.