I have been working for a few months with the beta releases. I am a long term alpha user (back to 3).

I am working for Florida's largest on-line bookseller and am presently developing a program in Alpha Five version 5 to replace the industry standard HomeBase which is put out by abebooks.com for booksellers.

THere are two other versions out there, but they have problems with database sizes. We are presently up to 118,000 books in our database and increasing 2K per week.

All the people here had problems with the way HOmeBase worked, so I have aleviated all those so far with version 5.

Only one aspect keeps me from moving immediately to Alpha, and that is the ability to input an ISBN number into the form and have it return the fields associated with the ISBN. HOmebase now goes back to ABEbooks and does that as you enter records.

I have set the form to refer to our present database so that if the book is a duplicate it does that for me, in addition to presenting a browse with the past history of sales for that book to aid in pricing.

Other than that one problem the client is itching to switch. But I told them that it will be a few months probably before I can get the program to go out over the net and pull in the data from an ISBN database somewhere.

If you would like for me to write a testimonial about how a5v5 is better than v4 I would be glad to do so - I am a medium user, and don't like having to resort to xbasic, so therefore I love v5 with all the scripts and built in functions. Ken Whitcomb