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The independent Alpha Five has endured the onslaught of suite-based databases for good reason: It's simple to use, yet has all the power you'll ever need for managing data. And at $129, it's the most affordable package in this group.
Like Microsoft Access, Alpha Five 4.0 has a tabbed dialog box design: You click the tabs to create, view, and edit tables, forms, and reports. The program's genies proved helpful, if a bit less thorough than Microsoft's wizards, especially when importing new information. Although Alpha Five's genie for importing database files performed flawlessly, it's limited to text, Microsoft...