Linear Blue Wins Prestigious FileMaker Award

LONDON, UK – 31st August 2007 – Linear Blue has been awarded the prestigious Mad Dog PR award at this year's FileMaker Developer Conference 2007 in Orlando, Florida.

The Mad Dog PR award is an industry acknowledgement for contributing with the advancement and awareness of FileMaker within the media, Internet and at industry trade shows and conferences.

Paul de Hallé, development director at Linear Blue received the award at the conference. He commented, "We are delighted to win the award in recognition of our work alongside FileMaker in 2007. FileMaker has had a fantastic year with the launch of FileMaker 9 and our business has benefited directly from these upgrades. We are looking forward to another successful year working together."

Paul de Hallé was there to represent Linear Blue at this year's developers' conference with his participation in the industry developer conference podcast, the first European to be asked to contribute his knowledge and wisdom for other developers and interested parties.

Tony Speakman, regional manager for Northern Europe commented, "Paul and Linear Blue have been a great inspiration to many of our developers. Paul and the team's enthusiasm and knowledge are instrumental in promoting the technology and ultimately helping others develop their own solutions."

About FileMaker, Inc.

FileMaker Pro is used by millions of individuals and workgroups around the world to be more productive and efficient. Business, education and government customers rely on FileMaker to manage people, projects, images, assets and other information. In addition to being the number one-selling easy-to-use database software, the award-winning FileMaker product line also includes low-cost applications that automate basic business tasks, ready-to-use Starter Solutions, and tools to create and share solutions from the desktop to the web. FileMaker, Inc. is a subsidiary of Apple Computer, Inc (AAPL).

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