Alpha Five
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Alpha Five is a relational database management system
and Rapid Application Development system
(RAD) for building Windows desktop and Web (including AJAX
) applications.
The most recent version of the product -- Alpha Five v11 was released in October of 2011. http://server2.alphasoftware.com/products/ Alpha Five v11 is a major new release with Mapping, Scheduling, Video, Image Gallery, HTML5 support along with a single tool for web and mobile app development approach. More information is at http://www.imakenews.com/alphasoftware/index000554363.cfm
In 2010 Alpha Five was rated #1 by InfoWorld in the Rapid Web Application Development Category
for 2008 in the category of "Best Development environment" and winner of the 2005 Product of the Year award for "Best Database" from CRN.com.
Applications with full read/write/edit capability can be created against its built-in DBF engine
and against MySQL
, Oracle
, MS SQL Server, DB2
, EnterpriseDB
, PostgreSQL
and any other SQL
database engines through ODBC sources. The latest version now incorporates Portable SQL, a feature that allows users to switch database back ends without having to rewrite queries. .
Alpha Five V9 PLATINUM - released in March 2008 is designed to build both desktop and AJAX enabled web database applications. For end users its key benefit is that it does not require programming skills. For professional developers its key benefit relates to the speed of both web and desktop database application development.
Alpha Five V10 with Codeless AJAX was released in 2010. Its main goal was to let people build web 2.0 AJAX database applications without having to code or learn JavaScript unless they wanted to. Tutorials and examples are shown at Product Info
Relational database management system
A relational database management system is a database management system that is based on the relational model as introduced by E. F. Codd. Most popular databases currently in use are based on the relational database model....
and Rapid Application Development system
Rapid application development
Rapid application development is a software development methodology that uses minimal planning in favor of rapid prototyping. The "planning" of software developed using RAD is interleaved with writing the software itself...
(RAD) for building Windows desktop and Web (including AJAX
Ajax
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) applications.
The most recent version of the product -- Alpha Five v11 was released in October of 2011. http://server2.alphasoftware.com/products/ Alpha Five v11 is a major new release with Mapping, Scheduling, Video, Image Gallery, HTML5 support along with a single tool for web and mobile app development approach. More information is at http://www.imakenews.com/alphasoftware/index000554363.cfm
In 2010 Alpha Five was rated #1 by InfoWorld in the Rapid Web Application Development Category
History
Alpha Five is developed by Alpha Software, Inc., which has been continually producing end-user and developer database application software since 1982. Alpha Five version 8 was a finalist in the Dr. Dobb's Jolt AwardsJolt Awards
The Jolt Awards are awards in the software industry.Since 1990, the Dr. Dobb's Jolt Product Excellence Awards have been presented annually to showcase products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance and made the task of creating software faster, easier, and more efficient.Jolt Cola...
for 2008 in the category of "Best Development environment" and winner of the 2005 Product of the Year award for "Best Database" from CRN.com.
Applications with full read/write/edit capability can be created against its built-in DBF engine
Database engine
A database engine is the underlying software component that a database management system uses to create, read, update and delete data from a database....
and against MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
, Oracle
Oracle Database
The Oracle Database is an object-relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation....
, MS SQL Server, DB2
IBM DB2
The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix , Linux, IBM i , z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions...
, EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB
EnterpriseDB is a privately held company that provides enterprise class support for PostgreSQL through its product Postgres Plus Standard Server, which is PostgreSQL with extra bundled modules...
, PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL, often simply Postgres, is an object-relational database management system available for many platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MS Windows and Mac OS X. It is released under the PostgreSQL License, which is an MIT-style license, and is thus free and open source software...
and any other SQL
SQL
SQL is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems ....
database engines through ODBC sources. The latest version now incorporates Portable SQL, a feature that allows users to switch database back ends without having to rewrite queries. .
Alpha Five V9 PLATINUM - released in March 2008 is designed to build both desktop and AJAX enabled web database applications. For end users its key benefit is that it does not require programming skills. For professional developers its key benefit relates to the speed of both web and desktop database application development.
Alpha Five V10 with Codeless AJAX was released in 2010. Its main goal was to let people build web 2.0 AJAX database applications without having to code or learn JavaScript unless they wanted to. Tutorials and examples are shown at Product Info