Thumbs up to Alpha Five from PC World

PC World published a feature yesterday about how to best build and share databases on the Web. PC World journalist David Storm gave a nice nod to Alpha Five in the article. He also pointed out that while Alpha and Filemaker are the two easiest database programs to set up and use across the Internet, the standard edition of Alpha Five is $200, while the Filemaker Server version is $1,000.

As you know, price isn't the only difference between the two. In an effort to keep developers informed of the distinctions between Alpha and Filemaker, we created our first competitive features grid. We hired a professional software reviewer to objectively compare Alpha Five with Microsoft Access 2007, Filemaker Pro, Filemaker Pro Advanced, Filemaker Server, and Filemaker Server Advanced. And our updated comparison grid reflects the feature set of FileMaker's new version 10 release.

Anyway, have a look at the PC World article. It's a worthwhile read for anyone wondering about ways to share spreadsheets and simple databases with colleagues and customers .