Douglas Purdy

Bento

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As you may know, my vision is all about giving people the power to create, access and share their data as they will.

Although I work at Microsoft, I love to see other companies making progress on technologies that I believe soundly support this vision.

Recently, I have been using a product by FileMaker (owned by Apple) called Bento.

There is both a Mac and iPhone version.  You can sync your “database” (called a library in Bent0) between your Mac and iPhone.  You can also share your libraries with any Mac on your local subnet – like iTunes – via Bonjour.

I could nitpick features I want and lament what I consider a powerful platform play Apple could execute on, but in general I have nothing but praise, great praise, for this product.

If you own an iPhone or a Mac, I really encourage you to check it out. 

Great work Bento team!

January 17th, 2010 at 5:06 am

Posted in Apple, Data, Microsoft, Software Development, Software Review

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  1. Once upon a time Apple had an OOP persistence layer called Bento, which was part of OpenDoc. Does this Bento share memes (or even genes) with that one?

    Jon Udell

    20 Jan 10 at 04:48

  2. Ah, the glory days of CyperDog. AFAIK, this Bento is just a skin over FileMaker.

    douglasp

    20 Jan 10 at 07:27

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