jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Sep 21 08:25:57 CDT 2012
I thought you were a poor retired person. I don't want to pay 130 / month, though of course they have to get paid somehow. http://www.alphasoftware.com/shop/ I managed to get into the MS development environment through the Dreamspark program when I was a student at the community college, so My MS tools were free (other than tuition). I have to say that for Windows stuff .Net / SQL Server is boss. Over the top powerful. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 9/21/2012 5:55 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > Jim, > > I agree with your take on the splitting market, although perhaps not the > assigned percentages; but that point is moot. You do, however, explain > quite well why I've decided to invest my time in Alpha Five v11: from that > single platform, you can target the desktop and the web (including pure > web, smart phones and tablets). The programming language, XBasic, is > similar to VBA, but on steroids (it supports true object-orientation, among > other things). > > Arthur