Hello,
I would also like to add some comments:
- in years of FileMaker development I found FileMaker to be increasingly expensive. Especially their update policy made things tough. I remember one release (was it 6 or 5.5?) where almost all they added to the feature list was some layout enhancement, the ability to directly download images from a camera and the execution of SQL statements. We only needed the last feature, but that was an expensive enhancement for our clients. It looks like FileMaker is doing the same now. You have huge version jumps (from 7 to 8 for example) with big update prices, but the world hasn't really changed that much. That is completely different with Servoy. A version jump from 2.1 to 2.2 offers more changes/enhancements than the move from FM 4 to 6 and is free.
- the concurrent user pricing model of Servoy is far better and understandable to everyone than a a per seat license, in my eyes. In our FM projects, we usually had a situation, where a lot of batch jobs had to run every night. This meant, that I had to explain a (usually Windows) Administrator, that I first need a dedicated hardware for the job, second a user logged in on that machine and third a full license for that. They were never amused.
To be honest, I am pretty astonished that price could be an argument against Servoy if compared to FileMaker...