[AccessD] OT - For Arthur

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.
>

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