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Alpha Brings Rapid Application Development to Web 2.0April 16, 2007; 09:18 AM Unveiled today, Alpha Five Version 8 gives programmers, power users, consultants, ISVs, and IT shops alike a powerful, unified, end-to-end development environment unsurpassed in its ability to generate robust, scalable, portable applications that target virtually every major platform — including Web 2.0, SaaS (software as a service), distributed enterprise, client-server, SQL database, and the Windows desktop. “Companies want to build Web applications and services, but as they get into it, they realize it’s much more expensive and time consuming than they initially imagined,” says Richard Rabins, Co Chairman of Alpha Software Inc., in Burlington, Mass. “The existing languages and tools are complex, time-consuming, and surprisingly hard to debug and maintain. We’ve created a platform that lets people rapidly build professional, secure, great-looking Web 2.0 apps with fully-formatted reporting that work with any SQL database — from the desktop to the data center — and are easy to update and maintain. We have delivered the first true RAD platform for Web 2.0.” Many programming environments promise developers higher productivity, and robust database applications. Alpha Five Version 8 delivers on that promise, through four breakthrough technology pillars — speed of development, portability, reporting, and security — one of which, ‘Portable SQL’, is truly historic in its proportions and potential industry impact.
That’s just for starters. Alpha Five Version 8 is the most extensive upgrade in Alpha Software’s 25 year history. Over 1,000 new features and technologies have been developed, tested, integrated, and brought to market in order to establish Alpha Five Version 8 as the world’s first end-to-end RAD IDE for the Web 2.0 era. A complete list of Alpha Five Version 8’s features is available to the media at http://alphasoftware.com/AlphaFive/ProductTour/. Customer testimonials, customer and analyst references, a FAQ, and more press resources are also available to the media on demand. “From the desktop to the data center to World Wide Web, Alpha Five Version 8 is the one tool that can do it all, and make it all seem easy,” says Selwyn Rabins, Co-Chairman of Alpha Software, and the creative force behind the company’s dedicated team of programmers who brought Alpha Five Version 8 from vision to reality. “Our vision has always been to empower more developers to do more things for more people, using one simple yet powerful tool. With the debut of Alpha Five Version 8, we have fully realized that vision, to the great benefit of developers everywhere. Now no developer will have to struggle to keep up with Web 2.0. 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 http://alphasoftware.com/trial/. Alpha Five Version 8 Professional Edition retails for $249. Upgrades for registered users cost $179. Alpha Five Version 8 Enterprise Edition is $349, or $249 for upgrades. 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 runtime starts at $499, or $399 as an upgrade. A complete product and feature comparison is available at http://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 one 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. The company is privately held, and based in Burlington, Mass. Alpha Software can be found on the Web at http://www.AlphaSoftware.com. |
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