A recent newsletter from the TIW Corp., which markets the Alere line, notes that a client/server version of Alere Manufacturing is in development.  I quickly checked the date to make sure I had not received an old email.  But the May 2014 edition notes that the new version should be available in “a few short months.” It will be shipped on a CD that also has the LAN version of the software so that users can choose their platform.