Re: How about a release?
This thread is interesting, to say the least.
I started out with Alpha using Alpha Four for DOS. It's manual with examples of the video rental business was extremely helpful to me. Let me reiterate, extremely helpful. I moved on over to A5 and knew my way around because of my A4 experience. Being that I closed my manufacturing related business almost a year ago to the day (thanks to china) I've been completely out of touch with any aspect of A5, and only dabbled in the few years prior because I spent so much time fighting the effects of China.
I am in the process of kicking the tires on a few business ideas and will have to decide, start fresh with A5 or go with a canned accounting package such as Quickbooks. Well, being that A5 is so flexible, it's possible that the choice will be A5.
Personally, I would love to see an A4 like video rental manual written for A5 and all that it offers. What I envision that would be REALLY helpful would be something like 3 flavors of "lesson" manuals. 1) A basic desktop app for a video store, such as the video store solution displayed in A4, 2), a more advanced video store application where members can log into their accounts online, check inventory/stock, and make reservations online for a video while sitting at their PC from home, and 3) Pick something more advanced than that that displays all of A5's advanced bells & whistles.
That would give those brand new to the community a place to start - with manual #1. Intermediates could improve on manual #2. And those who wish to be superman could delve into manual #3.
The difficult part of all this, understandably, is the "rate of change and improvement" to A5 and how Alpha might easily update its' manuals to change with their rapid improvements and newer versions. That might be a trick. Oh...might I add that I prefer a hard-copy manual sitting in front of me to mucking around with one on-screen.
Sorry for the long wind. Figured I'd throw my personal situation in for Alpha to take into consideration because there may be a few other balls of wax out there like me.
This thread is interesting, to say the least.
I started out with Alpha using Alpha Four for DOS. It's manual with examples of the video rental business was extremely helpful to me. Let me reiterate, extremely helpful. I moved on over to A5 and knew my way around because of my A4 experience. Being that I closed my manufacturing related business almost a year ago to the day (thanks to china) I've been completely out of touch with any aspect of A5, and only dabbled in the few years prior because I spent so much time fighting the effects of China.
I am in the process of kicking the tires on a few business ideas and will have to decide, start fresh with A5 or go with a canned accounting package such as Quickbooks. Well, being that A5 is so flexible, it's possible that the choice will be A5.
Personally, I would love to see an A4 like video rental manual written for A5 and all that it offers. What I envision that would be REALLY helpful would be something like 3 flavors of "lesson" manuals. 1) A basic desktop app for a video store, such as the video store solution displayed in A4, 2), a more advanced video store application where members can log into their accounts online, check inventory/stock, and make reservations online for a video while sitting at their PC from home, and 3) Pick something more advanced than that that displays all of A5's advanced bells & whistles.
That would give those brand new to the community a place to start - with manual #1. Intermediates could improve on manual #2. And those who wish to be superman could delve into manual #3.
The difficult part of all this, understandably, is the "rate of change and improvement" to A5 and how Alpha might easily update its' manuals to change with their rapid improvements and newer versions. That might be a trick. Oh...might I add that I prefer a hard-copy manual sitting in front of me to mucking around with one on-screen.
Sorry for the long wind. Figured I'd throw my personal situation in for Alpha to take into consideration because there may be a few other balls of wax out there like me.
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