Hi,
My name is Jon and I have worked in IT since 1979.
I have worked with several packages over the years, but my main skills are with the Alpha5/Alpha Anywhere RAD package.
In my opinion Alpha have priced themselves out of the small user market with their subscription only model (you even have to have a valid subscription for runtime packages to function) so the time has come to transfer our existing code to a new platform.
As we're only building for the desktop Access seems to be the ideal tool - relatively inexpensive and with a large user base.
I'm starting small, building a replacement app for our CRM (more like customer tracking & invoicing - nothing fancy) and once that's behaving will start on the enormous project of a complete rewrite of our main apps.
You may see several shouts for help early on, but be assured I can write a good search phrase, so will always look for previous solutions posted before I start a new thread.
BTW, found this forum looking for help created a self-referencing table relationship and found it's managed in almost exactly the same way as Alpha.
Regards & Best Wishes.
My name is Jon and I have worked in IT since 1979.
I have worked with several packages over the years, but my main skills are with the Alpha5/Alpha Anywhere RAD package.
In my opinion Alpha have priced themselves out of the small user market with their subscription only model (you even have to have a valid subscription for runtime packages to function) so the time has come to transfer our existing code to a new platform.
As we're only building for the desktop Access seems to be the ideal tool - relatively inexpensive and with a large user base.
I'm starting small, building a replacement app for our CRM (more like customer tracking & invoicing - nothing fancy) and once that's behaving will start on the enormous project of a complete rewrite of our main apps.
You may see several shouts for help early on, but be assured I can write a good search phrase, so will always look for previous solutions posted before I start a new thread.
BTW, found this forum looking for help created a self-referencing table relationship and found it's managed in almost exactly the same way as Alpha.
Regards & Best Wishes.