Alpha Five

Alpha Five was introduced in late 1994/early 1995 as a Windows application, this was initially a cut down version of the Alpha Four system that was sold alongside it and almost like an add-on that had a RRP of US$ 129 while the full A4 system had an RRP of US$ 499, But over time grew into a fully programmable relational database system that eventually replaced Alpha Four.

Version
In later versions Alpha Five also gained a programming language in the form of Xbasic which made it fully programmable unlike the DOS based Alpha Four system.
 * 1.0 (Oct 1994)
 * 1.01
 * 1.02 (May 1996)
 * 2 (Feb 1996) - for Windows 95
 * 2.01 (Jul 1996)
 * 3 (Feb 1997) - Standard Edition and Professional Edition
 * 3.01 (Mar 1997)
 * 3.02
 * 3.04
 * 4 (1998)
 * 4.01
 * 4.02
 * 4.03

See also: Alpha Database

Publications

 * Dr. Peter Wayne: Alpha Five: Xbasic for Everyone - A Practical Guide to Application Development with Alpha Five Version 3