You could turn into server version by adding customer field to each table and after every query query for that customer. It would entail. A customer table Witt user name customer and field for related queries
Regards Chuck Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 31, 2017, at 3:04 PM, Don Lapin via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > > 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 > ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** 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 **********************************************************************
