Upgrade or Not?

[lichtencraig]

We are a small but very successful architectural firm. We have filemaker 6, is it cost effective to upgrade to the latest version (we'd need a 10-15 user version) when we only really use it to manage mailing lists? We could just as easily do it in Excel with the version we have right now. I posted a question about selecting record to be printed and it's such an old version I fear no-one will know/bother to help. Thanks!!!!

[Ocean West]

Well now is a good time to upgrade as FMI has a special price for a 10 user license and Server, for $2,850 that is $1,139 off the price. Plus you get 1 year maintenance contract with that so if they release something you will automatically the the next update.

It is by far cheaper to bite the bullet and purchase a volume license (with Maintenance) and pay the annual maintenance then it will be to skip versions and pay the upgrade price.

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Just think there may be some feature that is added in the future that you determine is the cat's meow and if your already current with your license maintenance it you wouldn't need to find it in the budget to upgrade or not. Since you already have the Maintenance in your annual budget.

[Fitch]

You're on OS 9 (!?), so you'd need to update to OS X before you could upgrade FileMaker, which means you'd also need to upgrade your hardware to run OS X.

[johnroehm]

Running FMP 6 on Tiger. Can I upgrade to FMP 9 from 6 without any danger of losing my existing database files?

[Fitch]

You won't lose anything. But you should definitely read about Converting Pre-FileMaker 7 databases. And I'd highly recommend using MetadataMagic to clean up your file references before conversion.