I will  also chime in for FilemakerPro.  We have been using it for
years and manage all of our research collections with it (fish,
herps, plants, crustaceans, and mollusks). I also use it as a
bibliograpic database
(http://ellipse.inhs.uiuc.edu:591/mollusk/default.html). As has
already been stated it is very easy to use and is easily as powerful
as anything available for pc's (NSF needs to get up to speed on that
one).  One of the best things about it is that it is not hardware
snobbish (unlike Access).  It runs seemlessly on both Macs and PC's.

Kevin

>Date:    Tue, 20 Sep 2005 13:27:51 -0400
>From:    G Thomas Watters <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Software
>
>I'll third the vote for FMP. We use it to manage our collection of nearly a
>million specimens. It tracks loans, prints reports, makes labels, and is
>very easy to use. You can also post the database to the web with a more
>expensive version. We've received a lot of grief from some folks (NSF for
>example) for not using a "more powerful" package, but hey, it works and I
>don't see what additional "power" I need.

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