In responce to Filemaker being bad...
I must disagree. Our small dept (15 or so clients) works great with FMP, and we've been on it for the last 7 years. While I like SQL, I prefer FMP for what we are doing....and yes I do use it on a laptop
. The only problem I have with it is that it needs a mac, or windows machine to work and I cannot can my windows machine in favor of a linux station because of it.
I must say though that access is really bad, all around bad. If you want to keep track of your CDs and DVDs...well OK, but for any other application...yuck