| | Survey ID | What other platforms did you consider? | | | Why did you choose Alpha Five? |
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| | 1 | Access 97, Paradox, Lotus Approach | | | "I have Approach and Paradox. Which are now obsolete. I seriously considered Access 97 but found Alpha Five more intuitive" |
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| | 2 | Clarion | | | "Alpha Five is moving forward with technology at a faster pace than Clarion" |
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| | 3 | Dreamweaver Suite | | | "web security and reporting built right into Alpha Five web apps - no programming required" |
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| | 4 | DreamWeaver, Powerbuilder, IronSpeed, JSP | | | "ability to build web applications in a minimum amount of time is what drove our decision to Alpha Five" |
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| | 5 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | " I chose Alpha Five 8 Pro because 1) a tech-minded friend where I worked highly recommended it; 2) reviews speak of how user-friendly it is; 3) it has the capacity to be used as a web application if I later go in that direction for our non-profit communit" |
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| | 6 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "Alpha Five V8 chosen due to all round features (Desktop/Web) and cost of deployment" |
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| | 7 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "Ease of use and Quickbooks connectivity." |
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| | 8 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "Ease of use, forum support, Xbasic is a lot more powerful than Filemakers Scripting" |
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| | 9 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "Ease of use, reviews, training videos that Alpha Five offers" |
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| | 10 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "Easier to create working databases in Alpha Five" |
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| | 11 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "Easy to learn XBasic - similar to other languages" |
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| | 12 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "Easy to write Database Applications" |
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| | 13 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "Easy use and very good price" |
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| | 14 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97,PHP, .NET | | | "Alpha Five will let me build both web and desktop apps. Much faster to complete apps in Alpha Five" |
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| | 15 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97,PHP, .NET | | | "Reviews and research with customers indicated that Alpha Five would cut development times a lot" |
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| | 16 | Filemaker 8, Excel | | | "Power and flexibility of A5V8 for both desktop and web solutions." |
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| | 17 | Filemaker 9 | | | " I decided that Alpha five had better customer support and I also liked its reportwriter" |
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| | 18 | Filemaker 9 | | | "Alpha Five continues to be more user friendly and powerful for tailoring custom applications " |
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| | 19 | Filemaker 9 | | | "Alpha Five has met both desktop & web needs under one roof. This was something I could not get from Filemaker" |
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| | 20 | Filemaker 9 | | | "Alpha Five is more powerful " |
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| | 21 | Filemaker 9 | | | "Chose Alpha Five because of ease and power of customization." |
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| | 22 | Filemaker 9 | | | "Cost - Filemakers Runtime is only single user and lacks functionality, Much Cheaper to scale to lots of network users using Alpha Five" |
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| | 23 | Filemaker 9 | | | "Filemaker - Alpha Fives ease of use and learning time. Cost, Alpha Five makes it affordable to create web apps" |
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| | 24 | Filemaker 9 | | | "Filemaker had limited and expensive run time features" |
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| | 25 | Filemaker 9 | | | "I hired a programmer to evaluate Alpha Five, he said it was what I needed and should use" |
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| | 26 | Filemaker 9 | | | " Alpha Five was more flexible & easier to use on the web." |
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| | 27 | Filemaker 9 | | | " I wanted a data base easy to use which can create applications on my computer and Internet. Finally I wanted a data base which will not ruin my budget. being studied of Alpha Five and it seems to me that this software answers all my requirements. It is v" |
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| | 28 | Filemaker 9 | | | "Seemed easier to use" |
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| | 29 | Filemaker 9 | | | "The comprehensive Web & Desktop application capability, among other things." |
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| | 30 | Filemaker 9 | | | "The reviews and de the personal tests I did " |
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| | 31 | Filemaker 9, .Net, MS Access 97 | | | "I am an Access developer, but want to start web applications." |
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| | 32 | Filemaker 9, .Net, MS Access 97 | | | "I chose Alpha 5V8 because of it's great features and because of its support available via the message board" |
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| | 33 | Filemaker 9, Clarion | | | " Alpha Five appeared to be powerful like Clarion - but more modern and offerd web support. Filemaker falls short in both areas" |
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| | 34 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "I was using Access but to me Alpha was much easier to develop and get applications to use sooner." |
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| | 35 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 | | | "Past experience with Alpha 5" |
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| | 36 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 2007 | | | " The reasons I chose Alpha was I liked the non programming aspects of it where you could still get excellent functionality without writing code although in the future I will learn xbasic. Another advantage was the desktop / web design option which came as" |
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| | 37 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 2007 | | | "Access and Filemaker AlphaFive is much more efficient and easier to customize" |
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| | 38 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 2007 | | | "Access scared me and I was concerned about scalability and running out of power with Filemaker" |
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| | 39 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 2007 | | | "Chose Alpha Five for the rapid-application-development capabilities." |
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| | 40 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 2007 | | | "I thought it would be easier to use and offer me more options." |
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| | 41 | Filemaker 9, MS Access 97 2007 | | | "Less complex and easier to use compared to MS Access 97" |
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| | 42 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net | | | "Alpha Five met our requirments. A big plus is your documentation especially the examples. Keep THAT up!" |
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| | 43 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net | | | "Learned of Alpha Five while self teaching SQL. Ran trial and was impressed. Needed a solution faster than I can learn SQL, ASP, etc." |
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| | 44 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net | | | "MS Access 97. ALPHA IS MUCH FASTER FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT." |
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| | 45 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net | | | "Power and flexibility of A5V8 for both desktop and web solutions." |
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| | 46 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net | | | "Recommended by lecturer at a seminar" |
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| | 47 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net | | | "Recommended by my friend for ease of use." |
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| | 48 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net | | | "Web security and reporting built right into Alpha Five web apps" |
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| | 49 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net, WinDev | | | "WinDev. Alpha worked perfect on first try." |
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| | 50 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net,Oracle | | | "Rejected: MS Access 97 (because of poor screen designer and report writer), Filemaker (not scalable and runs out of steam) Oracle (expensive, big footprint, too much coding) PostgreSQL and MySQL (not enough development tools) Alpha 5 selected on price, featu" |
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| | 51 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net,Realbasic | | | " Alpha Five 8 is in my sense the fastest development tool in connection with databases." |
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| | 52 | Filemaker 9, PHP, ASP.Net,Realbasic | | | "Reasons - Price / Feature Set" |
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| | 53 | Filemaker 9, PHP, MS Access 97 | | | "I chose Alpha, because I needed simple reliable,and flexible. MySQL/PHP option is very difficult, to consistently apply from server to server without tweaking and firewall fussing. Plus I needed the features of runtime and desktop options." |
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| | 54 | Filemaker 9, Visual FoxPro | | | "Alpha Five is a complete Rapid Application Development Software, which speeds up the business software development" |
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| | 55 | Filemaker 9. | | | " Upgrading from Filemaker 8. Decided it was time to find a more robust product." |
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| | 56 | FileMaker Pro, DBase Plus, MS Access 97, VisualFlex, 4D, R:Base, RealBASIC. | | | "Combination of Alpha Five's power and ease of use" |
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| | 57 | Filemaker, FoxPro,WinDev,Clarion | | | ". I was looking for an integrated database/development environment that would continue to be available, supported and upgraded. I am converting a hugh dbase application with hundreds of reports - I wanted an environment with a future. I would like to spen" |
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| | 58 | FileMaker9, CodeCharge, phpLens, Access, CodeGear's php product, a few others. | | | "Chose Alpha Five because of ease and power of customization plus impressive RAD for the web" |
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| | 59 | LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) | | | "I had been using the is the LAMP stack. Alpha Five v8 is much more intuitive and yields much quicker development cycles" |
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| | 60 | LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) | | | "Switched to Alpha Five because of the need to build and modify web applications quickly" |
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| | 61 | Lotus Approach, MS Access 97 | | | "I found Access difficult to learn. I needed to upgrade from Aproach and found Alpha Five more powerful but still easy" |
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| | 62 | MS Access 97 | | | "Alpha Five's Ease of use compared to Access is the reason I switched" |
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| | 63 | MS Access 97 | | | "Chose Alpha Five because of ease of use, speed of development, power plus the ability to full web apps with reporting" |
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| | 64 | MS Access 97 | | | "Ease of use and superior reporting including building applications with reports on the web" |
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| | 65 | MS Access 97 | | | "I am an Access developer, but want to start web applications." |
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| | 66 | MS Access 97 | | | "Recommended by a consultant for ease of use" |
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| | 67 | MS Access 97 | | | " Alpha Five is a better value and more accessable" |
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| | 68 | MS Access 97 | | | "ALPHA Five IS MUCH FASTER FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT." |
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| | 69 | MS Access 97 | | | "Alpha Five continues to be more user friendly and powerful for tailoring custom applications" |
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| | 70 | MS Access 97 | | | "Ease of customization of Alpha Five" |
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| | 71 | MS Access 97 . | | | " Alpha 5v8 is easier to set up reports." |
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| | 72 | MS Access 97 . | | | "all of the training videos on your web-site" |
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| | 73 | MS Access 97 . | | | "More complete feature set plus web capabilites" |
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| | 74 | MS Access 97, Filemaker, PHP | | | " I was using Access but to me Alpha was much easier to develop and get applications to use sooner." |
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| | 75 | MS Access 97, Filemaker, PHP | | | "Alpha Five 8 is in my sense the fastest development tool in connection with databases." |
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| | 76 | MS Access 97, Filemaker, PHP | | | "I was told by a consultant who I respect that Alpha Five was the only one that I should consider." |
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| | 77 | MS Access 97, Filemaker, PHP | | | "The Xbasic langauge is very robust and easy to develop in" |
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| | 78 | MS Access 97, PHP, JSP, .Net | | | "Alpha Five offers it all under one roof" |
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| | 79 | MS Access 97, PHP, JSP, .Net | | | "I was impressed with what Alpha Five can do both on the web and desktop side" |
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| | 80 | MS Access 97, Pow | | | "I have investigated a mixture of relational-database and knowledge-engine applications;. None of the other commercial programs had the range of features, or allowed that quick implementation of ideas, that are offered by AlphaFive." |
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| | 81 | MS Access 97, JSP | | | "Power and flexibility of A5V8 for both desktop and web solutions." |
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| | 82 | Visual FoxPro, | | | "Alpha Five is complete Rad software, which speeds up the business software development" |
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| | 83 | WinDev | | | "Alpha Five worked perfectly on the first try." |
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| | 84 | Windev, PowerBuilder, VisualBasic and PHP | | | "Ease of use, Flexibilty, Web and Desktop capability, Built in Reporting tools and Security" |
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| | 85 | WinDev, VisualBasic, Visual Foxpro | | | "I selected Alpha Five because I like its user friendly capabilities, even a non programmer with a clear concept can build applications." |
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