[CS-FSLUG] Mac vs Linux business software question

[R. Thompson]

Greetings,

     I'm back at it, looking at business software.  An interesting
product I've found is Mac based:
http://www.posdirect.com/proddetail.php?prod=SKFMP&PHPSESSID=717f604662e0e4c392481908f9d3adeb
I've spoken to the sales people and they tell me that it may be edited 
using Filemaker 6 (a product I'm not familiar with).
It seems that Mac OS X is well spoken of on this list, and I have not
yet found affordable similar software for Linux.  Are there are opinions
on whether to use Mac software for this application?  What is Filemaker
6?  Is there an affordable similar Linux based product?

      Thanks,

                   Ron T.
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Ron G. Thompson, |^|
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
www.petomai.org   ron at petomai.org
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