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Dan, Alpha Software's CTO: the big HTML5 vs Native Mobile apps debate

Richard Rabins
As businesses increasingly look for applications that need to run anywhere (personal computers and mobile devices) this question almost always surfaces:  "Should the mobile part be built using native development tools for each mobile device or should the mobile part be built with HTML5?" There are strong opinions on the topic, but often they are not backed by solid, accurate technical and business arguments. If you take a look at the articles below written recently by Dan Bricklin, Alpha's CTO, we think you will find them thoughtful, knowledgeable  and practical. I look forward to your comments, viewpoints and perspective. Either fill in a comment below or email me at richard@alphasoftware.com      
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Richard Rabins
Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.

The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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