[AccessD] OT - For Arthur

In any event wouldn't it have been called Beta Anywhere?

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 3/20/2013 10:27 PM, Tony Septav wrote:
> Hey John
> Not in beta anymore.
>
> Tony Septav
> Nanaimo, BC
> Canada
>
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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
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
> 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.
>>