Some people dismiss Alpha Four readily because Alpha Four is a "DOS software".  It should be pointed out that as of today, among the largest companies in the U.S., many of the data processing tasks (such as payroll, account receivable, account payable, inventory control) are still performed by DOS-based or DOS-like programs.  In our view, Alpha Four, especially its current version (version 8), is a very user-friendly and capable software for building simple database systems.  We think that most of the applications written with Alpha Four use less than 10% of what the software is capable of.  We have been supporting corporations that continue to use Alpha Four applications.  These clients include a marine insurance company that uses Alpha Four to store information, a chemical company that uses Alpha Four to record orders and generate invoices everyday, and a major university on the east coast that uses Alpha Four to manage security across three campuses and generate all sorts of accident and crime reports.

The current version of Alpha Four runs efficiently under Windows 2000 and Windows XP.  We believe Microsoft will continue to support DOS programs, such as Alpha Four, in future versions of Windows.