Developers who like FileMaker’s ease of use, but hate its slow performance, technical limitations, and costly licensing model now have no reason to keep suffering. Today Alpha Software announced a competitive upgrade for FileMaker users that shaves over 60 percent off the price of Alpha Five Version 8 Enterprise Edition. This offer is good until Jan. 1, 2008.
By upgrading, they’ll gain everything they miss in FileMaker, without giving up fast and easy visual development–including the ability to build secure Web apps with full reporting and CSS, faster database performance, Xbasic programming language, affordable licensing, and multiplatform support (desktop, client-server, Web, hybrid, and mobile). FileMaker users need only send a copy of their activation code or license to Ma*******@***********re.com to get Alpha Five Enterprise Edition for $137.00. That’s over 60 percent off the usual $349.00 price, and includes full eligibility for future upgrades.
“We’re seeing a steady stream of FileMaker developers switching to Alpha Five, and we want to encourage and accelerate that,” says Richard Rabins, Co-Chairman of Alpha Software, Inc. “Interest from FileMaker developers in Alpha Five is strong. We think they’re fed up with FileMaker’s outdated user interface, pokey performance, limited programmability, and complex approach to building Web databases. FileMaker is stuck in the desktop era, but their developers are hungry to build Web and mobile databases. Now they can easily produce database apps for the Web, mobile, desktop, and more, with Alpha Five Version 8.”
Three recent benchmark tests published on the Alpha Software blog (https://Blog.AlphaSoftware.com) compared FileMaker’s performance to Alpha Five. The tests were conducted in response to FileMaker’s claims of enhanced SQL capabilities in its latest version. The results speak for themselves. Alpha Five Version 8 processed SQL data and delivered results up to 600 times faster than FileMaker Pro 9.
Alpha Five is also the only Windows database that makes it point-and-click easy for users to target every major platform, including Web 2.0, SaaS (software as a service), distributed enterprise, client-server, SQL database, and the Windows desktop. Developers can build databases visually, dive deep and program every aspect by hand, or follow any combination in between. The choice is theirs.
A complete list of Alpha Five Version 8’s features is available at https://AlphaSoftware.com/AlphaFive/ProductTour/. Customer testimonials, customer and analyst references, a FAQ, and other press resources are also available.
“Alpha Five Version 8 is the one tool that can do it all, easily,” says Selwyn Rabins, Co-Chairman of Alpha Software. “No developer should have to struggle or jump through hoops to make their database do whatever it is they have in mind. All they need is Alpha Five.”
PRICING & AVAILABILITY
All Alpha Five Version 8 products are available now. Fully functional trial versions can be downloaded at https://AlphaSoftware.com/Trial/. In addition to the FileMaker competitive upgrade price of $137.83 to the Enterprise edition of Alpha Five, Alpha Five Version 8 Professional Edition retails for $249. Alpha Five Application Server Basic is $499, or $299 for upgrades. Alpha Five Application Server Enterprise is $699, or $499 for upgrades. The Alpha Five Version 8 multi-user runtime starts at $499, or $399 as an upgrade. A complete product and feature comparison is available at https://www.AlphaSoftware.com/Products/.
ABOUT ALPHA SOFTWARE INC.
Since 1982, Alpha Software has been providing developers of all experience levels with award-winning tools and technologies that make it easy to rapidly build robust database and business applications. Today over 1 million developers rely on Alpha Software’s flagship platform, Alpha Five, to build desktop, client-server, distributed, and Web 2.0 applications for organizations of any size–from SOHO to the Fortune 100. Every day, tens of millions of people and businesses rely on applications built in Alpha Five. With the introduction of Alpha Five Version 8 in 2007, Alpha Software sets new standards for speed of development, portability, reporting, and security for database applications of all stripes. The company is privately held, and based in Burlington, Mass. Alpha Software can be found on the Web at https://www.AlphaSoftware.com.
This article was last modified on October 6, 2022
This article was first published on November 1, 2007
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