[AccessD] OT - For Arthur

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.