Editing FileMaker (section)

=== Purchase by Claris ===
Shortly after FileMaker 4's release, Apple Computer formed [[Claris]], a wholly owned subsidiary, to market software. [[Claris]] purchased Nashoba to round out its software suite. By that point, Leading Edge and Nutshell had faded from the marketplace because of competition from other DOS- and later Windows-based database products. FileMaker continued to succeed on the Macintosh platform.

[[Claris]] changed the product's name to FileMaker II to conform to its naming scheme for other products, such as [[MacWrite]] II, but the product changed little from the last Nashoba version, with several minor versions following.

In 1990, the product was released as FileMaker Pro 1.0, and in September 1992, [[Claris]] released a cross-platform version for both the [[MacOS|Mac]] and [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]. Except for a few platform-specific functions, the program's features and user interface remained the same.

By 1995, other than ClarisWorks, FileMaker Pro was the only well-performing product in Claris's lineup. In 1998, Apple moved development of some of the other Claris products in-house, dropped most of the rest, and changed Claris's name to FileMaker Inc., followed by a concentrated development of FileMaker alone.

In 2020, FileMaker International Inc. changed its name (back) to Claris International Inc. and announced the Claris Connect workflow software.