FileMaker 7 vs. Alpha 5 v.6

[Ron F]

I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with Alpha 5 v.6. Alfa 5 makes some interesting claims on how it is better that Filmaker, but I wanted to know what anyone that may have uses Alfa 5 thinks.

[aaa]

Tell about Alpha! What it is?

[Ron F]

its a database program similar to Filemaker or so it claims

[David McQueen]

Can you point us to a URL?

[aaa]

What good characters have it?

[Ted S]

Ron,

Search around on the Forum here for a thread that goes back a couple years. Look for a post a fella named Marino Peterson. He apparently had a lot of knowledge about both products. I think his conclusion was that Alpha beat FileMaker hands down nearly everywhere in a technical sense but that since Alpha's market share it so small he felt it was foolish to to hitch-his-wagon to Alpha.

[Lee Smith]

Ted,

Can you point at the Thread. I just did a search for Mariano Peterson and +"Alpha" and got one hit that had nothing to do with Alpha

I did find this URL

Click Here and unless I'm missing something on their site, it still isn't xplatt. If it supports the Mac, it is vary curious how they do not state it, and that all review are PC orientated.

If it is Window only, then it doesn't compare to FileMaker in at least ONE Important area.

Lee

[Ted S]

Lee,

Sorry but I can't find it. I was going on memory from over a year back and it's very possible that I have things mixed up.

It could be that the thread was on another board. It could also have been a discussion that was really about Servoy but included some talk about Alpha.

I tried searching some of the other boards but I don't think they keep records going back more than a year or so. I came up dry.

Mr. Peterson's posts were generally rich in details and his opinions echo mine in a lot of ways so I liked reading his writing. I haven't seen anything from him recently. He seems to have soured on FileMaker since v7 came out -- at least that is what his most recent posts indicate.

[HarryGlos]

Hi Guys

Alpha 6 ain't all that bad if you are strictly Pc and want to learn a new programming language. They use a new language called "Samari" it

[Mike D.]

Here is a post from 2004 on Alpha .

Mike

[Lee Smith]

Thanks for the Point. However, it isn't the one we were looking for. We were looking for one by Mariano Peterson, that Ted had remembered.

Lee

[Mike D.]

Lee,

I do seem to remember another thread on Alpha, but couldn't find it. As I recall, it was a rather long post.

[Lee Smith]

You were probably remembering this one

here

[Sergeant Ron]

http://www.alphasoftware.com/

The claims are made on this site.