by: Steve Workings, Alpha Five Developer and Instructor
email: steve@workings.com
This little guide is for you if you're a person or company in need of a good database system. You're looking around, trying to decide which database to use. It's a big commitment after all. You'll invest a great deal of time, money and your future in that critical piece of software.
You heard about Alpha Five (and maybe wonder why you haven't heard of it before). You obviously discovered this web site. How can you learn more about Alpha Five?
First, I'm going to give you a short list of reasons why Alpha Five should be your choice. And second, I'm going to recommend other things you can do to learn more.
Why Alpha Five Smokes the Competition
- The advertising is true: You can accomplish more with Alpha Five in a shorter period of time than any other database product.
- Alpha Five has genies for the non-programmer, and powerful programming capabilities for the most demanding needs.
- Alpha Five has a more powerful programming language than Filemaker, better development tools and scalability than Access.
- Alpha Five can be your front-end to a large variety of back-end databases.
- Alpha Five's desktop tools are fantastic, and the web-development features are unmatched.
- Alpha Five's licensing model makes distribution much more affordable than its competitors' pricing and policies.
- Alpha Five is supported by an outstanding, self-supporting user/developer community.
How to Learn More
(without spending any money!)
1. Download the 30-day free trial of Alpha Five from AlphaSoftware.com. This is the full version of Alpha Five - everything is included. Start using it. For free.
2. Spend time at AlphaSoftware.com. I'll presume you already have, but the resources there are extensive, and (almost) nothing is hype; the folks at Alpha truly have a terrific product and only need the facts to support it.
3. Watch for, and take advantage of, any free on-line course that Alpha Software offers to new and prospective users. Yes, I'm the instructor, so yes, I have some vested interest in you taking the course. But it's free, it's a great jump-start, and people have give us terrific reviews. The class has been turned into a CD, available from Alpha Software, but the table of contents for both are the same. Click here to see it: https://www.alphasoftware.com/shop/alphafive/new/a5v9tt_toc.html.
4. Join the user-supported Alpha Five Message board at http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/alphaforum/index.php. Register right away: it's free, doesn't generate junk mail to you, etc. There are three things here I want you to notice:
a) The short response time between an original poster's question and a response (or two or three).
b) The quality of the responses. If you look for a while, you'll see not only some very informed and generous help from skilled users, but also from the staff and even the owners of Alpha Software.
c) The Search feature. What's important to you? Use the Search feature to see if you can learn more about it. I'll bet you can. And, if you can't, make sure you post a new question (in the correct forum) then enjoy and profit from being part of our community right away.
5. Spend some time looking around this website, sponsored by developers who want your business. You'll be impressed by who's here and what we've done for our customers. You'll begin to understand the depth and breadth of what Alpha Five can offer. Most importantly, you'll discover the experience that a professional Alpha Five developer can provide to you, if you decide that you need it.
If you finished reading this, then I know you're nearly convinced that Alpha Five may be just what you need. So make a plan to spend some time learning more, and don't let this opportunity pass you by. Those of us who have found Alpha Five for our solutions know that it can be your solution too. We're evangelistic about it, which is why I wrote this article and why I want to see you on the Alpha message board, in one of my classes, or writing your own testimonial in a couple years. Join us!
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