All of the templates look great and are ready to use right out of the box. More experienced FM Pro users will not notice many cosmetic changes, but there are plenty of new features in 4.0. FM Pro's scripting capability lets more advanced users speed up the process of creating a new database. You can then exchange data with other FM Pro users -on the same platform or not. FileMaker Pro is the only database offering seamless cross-platform capability between Mac OS and Windows users.
Some database managers are relational, while others use a flat- file format.
In a relational database, data is stored in a series of grids or matrices in which the rows contain the information and the columns hold the name of the data fields. Relational databases can handle complex relationships between data better than flat-field database programs. Since version 3.0, FM Pro has been relational. More big news in version 4.0 is the comprehensive Web-publishing features. You don't have to know what HTML means to convert your database and publish it on the Internet.