Quick one!

Allow the creation of runtime solution running on external files!

This would just be awesome!

If you mean external sources then I dont ever see them doing that.

Then all one would have to do is purchase ONE copy of FileMaker and then create a runtime front end to a MySQL, Oracle, or MS SQL db.

So this is only a money question and not a feature one.

If I develop a .Net layer in MSVS over a FM database, MS won't ask me to buy a VS license each time.

No wonder why there are less and less FM developpers. Only developpers with experience from the 80s and 90s remain...

Yes but then YOU would have to develop a personal .NET front end / logic layer. However, you have programming experience.

Imagine companies getting one copy of Pro, creating a front end runtime to MySQL. So for $300 bux they can get a solution up and running without hiring a .Net programmer.

Doesnt sound like a good business plan.

I'm not a marketing guy, but, IMHO, if they do that, they could sell a way more licenses, because more developper would go with FM. They will then win on volume sales.

I guess most developper would agree that the real power of FM is its rapid application development ability.

I have not yet found an other product that could develop solution as fast as FM.