Alpha Database: Difference between revisions

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A database program originally introduced in 1982 for DOS, initially a flat-file database that was marketed as an easy-to-use budget alternative to relational systems, but with the advent of the relational Alpha Four in 1986 the marketing started leaning towards describing the system as an easy-to-use menu-driven alternative to difficult to learn programmable relational databases The company continued to sell Alpha Four alongside the flat-file Alpha three for some time after the introduction of Alpha Four.

Products

Database Manager I (1982)
Database Manager II
Alpha/three (1986) - was only released in version 1.0 with no known bug fixes.
Alpha Four
Alpha Five

Vendor: Alpha Software Corporation

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-A database program originally introduced in 1982 for [[DOS]] that was marketed as an easy-to-use relational database.
+A database program originally introduced in 1982 for [[DOS]], initially a flat-file database that was marketed as an easy-to-use budget alternative to relational systems, but with the advent of the relational Alpha Four in 1986 the marketing started leaning towards describing the system as an easy-to-use menu-driven alternative to difficult to learn programmable relational databases The company continued to sell Alpha Four alongside the flat-file Alpha three for some time after the introduction of Alpha Four.
-===Alpha Four===
+==Products==
-[[Image:Alpha-four.gif|250px|right]]
+*Database Manager I (1982)
-By the time Alpha Four hit the ground in 1986 the application had been rewritten from the scratch and was being marketed as a [[dBase]] clone that could be used "without programming", which was another way of saying that the application used industry standard .dbf database and index files but was in no other way [[xBase]] compatible. Over time the company stopped using "Alpha 4" as a version number and started using it as a brand name.
+*Database Manager II
+*Alpha/three (1986) - was only released in version 1.0 with no known bug fixes.
+*[[Alpha Four]]
+*[[Alpha Five]]
-====Versions====
+Vendor: [[Alpha Software Corporation]]
-* Last known version: Aplha Four for DOS V.8
-* Alpha Four v7 released in 2001
-* Alpha Four v2 released in late 1991 - RRP US$ 549 - First version to offer multi-user/networking capability at an extra cost.
-* Alpha Four v1.1b released in 1989
-* Alpha Four v1b released in 1986
-===Alpha Five===
+[[Category:DOS Databases]]
-Introduced in late 1994/early 1995 as a [[MS Windows]]/WinOS/2 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.
-==Authors & publishers==
-* Alpha Software
-[[Category: Databases]][[Category: DOS Tools]][[Category: MS Windows Tools]]