This new version of Alpha Five offers something for users of every skill level. There are a lot of very exciting new features in this release that make Alpha Five both easier to use and much more powerful.

A signature feature of this release is 'active-link' tables, which now allow you to build enterprise class applications against SQL databases. This document describes all of the new features in Version 9.

Many of the descriptions of the new features are accompanied by video demonstrations. For a quick overview of what's new, we suggest that you start on the 'Videos of Selected New Features' page. Thank you for you continued support.

Key Reasons To Go Platinum

1. Extremely strong Client Server (desktop) support for working directly with SQL databases (stored Procedures are supported).
2. Query optimizer for working with SQL data.
3. Ability to build highly responsive web 2.0/Ajax applications in much less time than in visual studio, Ruby or PHP.
4. Interactive Reporting with drill down.
5. Full event model in Reports, Browses Forms.
6. Major enhancements to Browses, XBasic, XDialog and Security.
7. Major Enhancements to Forms and Field Rules.
8. Super Controls allows you to place live reports, web content, PDF documents and more directly in forms.
9. Faster Web Performance.
10. Virtual tables, XML Parser, HTML memo fields with hyperlinks.
11. Web Cluster for fail-over and load balancing of large web apps.
12. Alpha Five forms can include HTML forms (with regular HTML tags and special Alpha Five tags - accordion, tab, conditional, dynamic content, image).

About Alpha Five Software Inc
Alpha Software Inc., headquartered in Burlington, Massachusettes, has been creating relational database applications renowned for their ease-of-use for more than 20 years. The company was founded in 1982 and has in excess of 1 million customers. For more information, visit http://alphasoftware.com/about/releases.asp