Create complete web applications rapidly with Scalability, Reporting, Security, AJAX

Extremely limited -- you cannot build Web Apps

Genies or wizards designed to provide for ease of use

Not as comprehensive as Alpha Five V9

Action Scripting that makes it possible to build powerful desktop applications without having to code

Point and click field rules to ensure that data can be entered quickly and accurately

Limited

Drill down reporting

Wide portfolio of Lookup, Validate, post, and transform data options without requiring any coding

Powerful development language for building very custom desktop AND web applications

Build rich dialogs with multiple integrated controls easily

Data storage model where data, indexes, and layout definitions are stored in separate files resulting in more scalability in terms of number of concurrent users, less file bloat, faster performance, and less chance of corruption.

Extensive and comprehensive portfolio of built in operations for appending, subtracting, deleting, summarizing, cross tabbing, deleting duplicate records, etc.

Limited

Supercontrols to place, live reports, web content (such as Google Maps), data bound HTML, PDF documents and much more within a form

Mail Merge with Microsoft® Office Word using OLE automation

Email Merge

Time required to build typical applications

Up to 5 times less than Access

Requires significantly more time to build applications than in Alpha Five