Alpha Five V7.Alpha Software Inc. has announced a major new upgrade to its database application, Alpha Five An application development and database management system (DBMS) for Windows from Alpha Software, Inc., Burlington, MA (www.alphasoftware.com). Noted for its ease of use and rapid application building, Alpha Five provides high-level, predefined scripts for creating desktop and Web-based . Alpha Five V7 continues the practice of allowing users to create and deploy sophisticated desktop and web-based applications See Web application. without having to write code. The new capabilities are designed to enhance the productivity of application developers and enable them to create robust database solutions extremely quickly. Web Database Features With its enhanced ability to create rich database-driven web solutions rapidly, Alpha Five V7 dramatically cuts the costs and development required to build equivalent solutions using programing tools like php and. aspx. With the announcement of Version 7, Alpha Software is also launching an integrated database hosting service, AS Online, which provides seamless hosting for Alpha Five web applications. New Features in V7 New features also make it straightforward for small business owners, and departmental users in larger companies to create customised desktop and web databases to fit their exact needs, Alpha Five Version 7 includes dozens of new features that improve even further upon Alpha's capabilities and ease of use, including major enhancements to the Report Writer & Charting with advanced PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. capabilities and ADO Import genies. Other major enhancements are the E-Commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. Transaction capabilities with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. support, dozens of new Web-Component features including new Navigation builders and Xbasic XBasic is a variant of the BASIC programming language that was developed in the late 1980s for the Motorola 88000 CPU and Unix by Max Reason. In the early 1990s it was ported to Windows and Linux, and since 1999 it has been available as open source software with its runtime library functionality. For a full list of new features, see www.alphasoftware.com |
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