FileMaker Pro Earns High Marks From Top Universities

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FileMaker Pro Earns High Marks From Top Universities

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In addition to highest levels of academics, 47 out of the top 50 undergraduate national universities recently ranked by U.S. News and World Report have something else in common: they are users of database software from FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker's database software enables workgroups and individuals to manage information on the desktop and the Web. Colleges and universities use the software to build applications campus-wide for tasks that span tracking individual student records and coordinating alumni events to storing high-resolution digital images and publishing university data on the Internet.

With a long history of success in the higher education market, FileMaker installations are at MIT, Stanford, Rochester Institute of Technology and extend well beyond U.S. News' list with some as large as 10,000 seats in the U.S. and even exceeding 100,000 seats abroad at ETH, the Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland.

``We are honored that FileMaker is a part of the solution for students, faculty and staff at almost all of the top-ranked universities,'' said Dominique Goupil, president of FileMaker, Inc. ``Being selected by the best and brightest underscores the overwhelming acceptance of FileMaker as the database of choice for institutions of higher learning.''

FileMaker is a worldwide leader in database tools for workgroups and individuals, from the desktop to the Web. Its award-winning FileMaker line of database software provides relational power, instant and custom Web publishing and legendary ease-of-use. FileMaker is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL - news). Go to http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/natunivs/natu_a2.htm for a full listing of the top 50 U.S. Colleges.

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