[AccessD] OT - For Arthur

John W Colby jwcolby at gmail.com
Wed Mar 20 19:26:59 CDT 2013


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Meanwhile I'm also very interested in the Alpha Anywhere product, still in beta...

Which begs the question...

John W. Colby

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On 3/20/2013 2:09 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> 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.
>



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