Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Mar 20 13:25:48 CDT 2013
Hi Arthur: I am very interested in your progress on the Alpha platform, in particular to how far you have gone in the area of web deployment. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 11:09 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - For Arthur Jim, My ambitions are much more modest, and my thoughts of apps deployed so are directed at two of my previous apps, whose contractors come back about once a year for en enhancement or two, so I get a week or two's work out of each of them per year. Both apps are pretty lightweight (fewer than 30 tables), and both would profit immensely with a tablet-app; in one case it's a horse-stable and in the other a number of factories. Meanwhile I'm also very interested in the Alpha Anywhere product, still in beta, and I'm developing both apps in the Alpha Anywhere environment -- which, in overall terms, I would place ahead of anything I've seen in the way of developer tools for tablets and smart-phones and simple classic web-sites -- but with a serious proviso: the company is committed to Windows and I wish this were not the case. But still, lots of site-host outfits like GoDaddy.com and many others will provide a Windows Server base upon which one can install the Alpha app-server. But in my years of semi-retirement, I would really like to cut as many bonds with MS as possible. At the moment, all I'm thinking about in this vein is Access RunTime + myApp + Wine in a tiny Linux like CrunchBang, whose footprint is a mere 80MB; but this could conceivably work in any Android tablet. We shall see. A. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com