FileMaker vs PHP/MySQL (Score 1)

I'm the IT Manager at a small company. I do a lot of custom PHP/MySQL programming. Another person does FileMaker development. What I've found is that PHP/MySQL is superior in almost every way. The biggest problem with FileMaker is that it's a fat client architecture. We have 180MB of contact information that takes a long time to move to the client BEFORE a search/filter is even performed. The server sends EVERYTHING to the client no matter what subset you're interested in - the client does almost all the processing. Of course, this annoys the heck out of users, especially those outside our network (making it pretty much unusable outside our network). FileMaker and PHP both require a fair amount of proprietary knowledge to get them going. My opintion: toss out FileMaker until it's a true SQL-enabled RDBMS. Right now I think it's garbage. PHP/MySQL isn't perfect, but it's far superior.