[AccessD] Alpha Five

It appears that it may be fairly expensive to deploy if you are starting
from square one. See below:

1-Developer		$399 
1-Upgrade		$299 
3-Developer		$999 
1-End user		$199

10-End user		$899 
100-End user	$999 (Unlimited distribution license)
Web server		$699 (Unlimited users per server)

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:30 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Alpha Five

I'm kicking its tires now. AFAIK it makes no pretence of converting Access
apps to the web. Rather, it appeals to Access developers as the logical
next step when webification becomes an issue. It also makes no attempt at
all to handle or convert VBA code. It has its own coding language called
xBasic, whose syntax will be instantly familiar to any Access developer,
although the naming conventions are quite different. It has a forms builder
with AutoForm, ditto for reports. It has its own file format but can handle
just about any back end you can think of, including Access and SQL Server
among many others. Besides these differences, one thing really stands out
so far: speed. It's way faster than Access. It also comes with a
substantial collection of template and tutorial apps, and some video
tutorials are available on-line. Finally, a trial version is available for
download, so anyone interested can take a peak for themselves.

I've exchanged several emails with Richard Rabins of Alpha Five, and he
strikes me as very friendly and helpful.

I can't speak with any degree of expertise about Alpha Five yet, but I am
intrigued and will continue my explorations seriously over the next little
while.

I could be wrong about this, but I gather that there is no equivalent to
the Access RunTime, and that therefore your client would have to acquire
her own copy. I'll look into that and either confirm or refute.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Mark Simms <marksimms at verizon.net> wrote:

> How does it handle the VBA and events ?
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