But the 'Claris FileMaker Platform' is now legacy software and at some point in the future it will be dropped (I'm guessing somewhere around 2030 given the complexities involved). The new versions of FileMaker are a welcome confirmation that Claris is continuing to support existing customers. It's hard enough to keep AD up-to-date, let alone some third party's user database, and employee information is sensitive - some jurisdictions have legislation that requires something as simple as 'does this person work for this company?' to be kept confidential. For customers with on-premise deployments and, more importantly, custom authentication management (such as Active Directory), the Claris ID is never going to fly. Knowing that this step would be untenable for a significant portion of their customers, Claris is continuing to develop, sell and support the existing 'Claris FileMaker Platform' that does not have such a requirement. A few years ago, they introduced the concept of the 'Claris ID' and now, with the 'Claris Platform', that Claris ID must be used to sign into the application.

has been dealing with widespread piracy for so long that they finally have had enough.

Right now, Claris have essentially forked the codebase for the 'Claris FileMaker Platform' and the 'Claris Platform' - what I've been hearing is that Claris, Inc.

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