[AccessD] Alpha Five A prototyping tool to rival Access

Note to people making money programming with Access.

1st rule of programming lauguages - the best language will fail in the marketplace.

2nd rule of programming for money - It ain't dogfood if the dogs won't eat it.

Make sure you've got a market that will pay for  __________ (fill in the blank).

I've got 2 friends that got mad at M$ and decided to go open source.  They standardized
on Berkley Free BSD, PostGreSql and PHP.  They've starved for about a year developing
a really good framework and have been trying to make money with it since December.

They just sold a really big job to a current customer who knows how good they are
and trusts them to deliver.  The real test will come in about 6 months when they've
finished their first job and are trying to sell people who don't know how good they are.  

I wish them well but still have doubts about the local market for this combination of products.
They're doing a lot of the right things to help develop a market here.  They've gotten active
in a local Open Source group, are publicizing the Open Source message, are doing demos
at local trade shows, are installing opensource for free about one Saturday a month, etc.


Tom






  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paulo Alexandre Ramos 
  To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
  Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 1:03 PM
  Subject: Re: [AccessD] Alpha Five A prototyping tool to rival Access


  Jim,

  I believe that access will stay for a few more years and I will continue using it. Never the less I'm looking for a replacent for Access, specially for free :-)

  BTW .NET as also a rival: mono (www.go-mono.com) and its free (still need some work)


  Paulo

  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Jim Lawrence (AccessD) 
    To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com 
    Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 1:12 PM
    Subject: RE: [AccessD] Alpha Five A prototyping tool to rival Access


    Hi Paulo:

    Looks interesting but is not described as Access's replacement, just yet.

    My two cents worth
    Jim
      -----Original Message-----
      From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Paulo Alexandre Ramos
      Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:30 AM
      To: AccessD Mailing List
      Subject: [AccessD] Alpha Five A prototyping tool to rival Access


      Access as a new rival.


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