When Wakanda was first released and the 4D mobile concept came about I got really excited as I like you thought of all the small functions that I could publish like little dashboards, public information, company news. I was never thinking lets re-write thousands of screens for internal users but via a web page.
But like you I quickly realised that the licence cost made this type of publication non viable. For the type of function I would want to use I would, in many cases, I have an unknown user base. I thought that as I had already purchased a web server license and in some cases also a web services license that I would have access to the nice 4D Mobile REST services. I stated 4 years ago and I still believe it today that the decision that they made on licensing has held back adoption of the 4D Mobile and Wakanda projects. I simply have not been able to make a business case for its use. Whereas if it had been a simple license add on then I would have been able to buy the connector and buy the Wakanda developer kit and add the cost to the annual maintenance bill. What I have done instead is use 4D’s web server and develop my own mini apps to hang off it. My next project longer term project which I just started is to deliver a RESTful interface for a number of tables and functions so other people can do the pretty front end bit and I can concentrate on the data. Regards, Dougie ________________________________________________________ telekinetix Limited- J. Douglas Cryer Phone : 01234 761759 Mobile : 07973 675 218 2nd Floor Broadway House, 4-6 The Broadway, Bedford MK40 2TE Email : [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Web : http://www.telekinetix.com <http://www.telekinetix.com/> ________________________________________________________ ********************************************************************** 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:[email protected] **********************************************************************
