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

• 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

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.

See also: Alpha Database

Publications

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