Hi Folks, I have a single-user, non-web-based 4D product in a specific area of chemicals regulatory compliance. It has taken me about two years to develop the application. With the 4D solution, we are charging for a one-time purchase and then for upgrades (more-or-less annually). There is some proprietary information for each customer, which the user would not want exposed in some accidental manner.
There's some pressure from competitors to offer (as some of them do) a cloud-based solution, where we could be more flexible in terms of how we priced things -- subscriptions for various lengths of time, etc. The revenue might be more sustainable. I looked for earlier posts on cloud migration but wanted to ask for current ideas. The last thing I saw related to spinning up individual instances of 4D for each user, which sounds fairly expensive in terms of 4D licenses. Also, right now there is no web interface in the product. Any recommendations for a strategy which has worked? Should I rewrite the whole thing in some web-native language and then host on Heroku or similar? Would I have difficulty replicating the interface? Am I looking at another two years - or longer? Thanks, Don ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
