In this movie we will have a brief look at FileMaker Server's history and what features were introduced when. FileMaker Server was first introduced in 1994 primarily to boost performance when sharing files with multiple users. That was a time when FileMaker 2.1 was out so FileMaker Server was also named version 2, a little misleadingly because there was never a version 1. Shortly after the initial release, FileMaker added support for the IPX network protocol which made it a whole lot easier to deploy on Windows. Since then there have been many quantum leaps that take us to where we are now. When FileMaker Pro became relational with Version 3, we were also given a new version of FileMaker Server and this time around it supported the much faster PCP network protocol. And we could host 100 files to 100 users. Version 4 of FileMaker Pro had ODBC and web support but all that connectivity still had to go through the client, FileMaker Server didn't change. The next quantum leap came in 1999 when FileMaker Pro and Server 5 were introduced and this time the user count went up to 250 and 125 files. And also for the first time we could administer FileMaker Server remotely. It was around this time that Apple launched OS X so FileMaker Server was revved to accommodate this with version 5.5 and that was also the only version of FileMaker Server ever to run on Linux. New features introduced the ability to update plug ins, domain authentication, and the ability for developers to make schema changes when the file was hosted. The biggest quantum leap however came in 2004 when the FileMaker 7 product family was released. This included a brand new FileMaker Server and for the first time, all web and ODBC traffic went directly through the server instead of going through a client. The server was now also able to perform some tasks itself. And it had a brand new admin tool, it had encryption of data traffic between FileMaker Pro and Server and it had a whole new web publishing technology. The user count remained at 250 and the file count at 125 but that file counts it became pretty much a moot point since each FileMaker file could now contain up to a million tables. FileMaker Server 8 mainly improved performance and provided support for FileMaker 8 and 8.5 features. But FileMaker 9 however delivered more power with server side scripts and new admin console that let us upload files directly to FileMaker Server and the standard web publishing capabilities moved from FileMaker Server Advanced to the cheaper regular FileMaker Server. And now there is FileMaker Server 10 with even more service side processing capabilities. It now adds Import, Export, and Email to server side script. It has new backup settings, and it allows for up to 1,000 FileMaker Pro clients to connect to FileMaker Server Advanced.