Not the most exciting or noteworthy piece of news, but still a fun little bit of nostalgia.
Today at their 24th annual DevCon, FileMaker, Inc., maker of the world’s leading Workplace Innovation Platform, unveiled the start of a new chapter in the company’s history as Claris International Inc.
Claris was created a spin-off from Apple in 1987, set up to own and developed MacPaint and MacWrite, which Apple had allowed to wither. The company eventually acquired FileMaker, and in 1990 Apple decided to keep Claris as a wholly-owned subsidiary. It’s been that way ever since, with the company renaming itself to FileMaker in 1998, after divesting everything else from the company.
Since it has acquired a company called Stamplay, it’s no longer just shipping FileMaker, hence the rename back to Claris.
What on Earth is a “Workplace Innovation Platform”? Does it let me synergize solutions?
Damn Skippy it does. File maker, literally allows you to make files! Files I tell you ! Files! Let that sink in… No longer will you have to purchase files from the dark web, which carry all sorts of risk and thus require the requisite credit default swap insurance and compliance issues. File maker changes the game by disrupting the paradigm, and introducing a killer feature: the ability to make files!
It’s all a joke until an iOS user walks into the room and bursts into tears. 🙁
I believe they combine true Vertical Integration with Cross-domain Fertilization Automation. It’s Synergism-as-a-Service (SAAS).