Leaders Of The Pack
3:00 PM EST Fri. Dec. 16, 2005
From the December 19, 2005 issue of CRN
Page 7 of 10
Alpha Five V7
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| Solution providers are finding application development a stable way to generate income and build long-term relationships with customers. Nowhere is this truer than in the small-business market, where customers often need unique solutions to meet their specialized business requirements.
Alpha Five combines automated application design with a full-fledged programming language underneath. Another important element is that developers can distribute runtime versions of Alpha Five applications. FileMaker came in a very close second with its ease of use and direct support of Web-based applications. FileMaker only came up short in its lack of a multiuser runtime and nontraditional methodology. —Frank J. Ohlhorst |
The problem facing many small businesses is the lack of financial resources and in-house abilities to generate workable solutions. The Test Center set out to identify which desktop databases/rapid application development tools have the flexibility to meet today’s small-business custom-application needs yet still create opportunity for solution providers. Three products came to the fore: Alpha Software’s new Alpha Five Version 7, FileMaker’s FileMaker Pro Advanced Version 8 and Microsoft’s Access. All enable solution providers to build low-cost software solutions. But Alpha Five V7 earns the Product of the Year nod.
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