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To: esecurities(tm) who wrote (2851)	12/1/1998 12:51:00 AM
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Breaking News>InfoWorld Electric Test Center:Alpha Five elegantly combines simplicity with power. Alpha Five, Version 4.0 Alpha Five is a full-featured relational database that combines the ease of Approach with the power of FoxPro, while leaving Access in the dust. Pros: Much greater access to sophisticated data operations (posting, summarizing, cross tabbing, mail merge, etc.) than similar products; straightforward, strong, fast, and elegant, layered structure suitable for any user level; excellent price; good user manual. Cons: Could use an Xbasic tutorial for intermediate users; script recorder does not record all interactive actions performed by users. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alpha Software, Burlington, Mass.; (800) 451-1018, (617) 229-2924; fax: (617) 272-4876; www.alphasoftware.com. Price: $149 for Pro version (includes Xbasic manual), $99 for Standard version. Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0. "...If you are looking for a database that's easier to use than Microsoft Access and yet offers plenty of power, then you would do well to consider the venerable Alpha Five, a simple, powerful, and elegant relational database...I find Alpha Five as easy to use as Lotus Approach and as powerful as Microsoft FoxPro, to name two databases that have impressed me. Alpha Five gives its users more control for advanced data operations than do similar products, and its layered structure lets it appeal to all types of users...If you are tired of Access' limitations, or FoxPro's tedious programming conventions, then it's time for the simple, powerful, and elegant Alpha Five..." &copy November 30, 1998 infoworld.com