[AccessD] OT - For Arthur

Alpha Anywhere, Beta Anywhere, Theta Anywhere . . . . . .
ROTFLMAO!!!!!

Good one, John!

T

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On 3/20/2013 10:43 PM, John W Colby wrote:
> In any event wouldn't it have been called Beta Anywhere?
>
> John W. Colby
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
> On 3/20/2013 10:27 PM, Tony Septav wrote:
>> Hey John
>> Not in beta anymore.
>>
>> Tony Septav
>> Nanaimo, BC
>> Canada
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W Colby
>> Sent: March-20-13 7:27 PM
>> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT - For Arthur
>>
>>   >>
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>