Hi, I am currently working on a project to develop a software package for an Accountants practice. The software will be closed source. I would be much greatful if you could clear some of the doubts given below:
1) This software will be a commercial product being used by 8-10 accountants simultaneously over a LAN. Are there any licencing issues that i need to worry about in terms of paying fees for installing the Database at my Clients computers together with my VB application ? The application will Not be open-source. 2) My preffered choice of developement platform is to use SAP DB as the backend and Visual Basic as the front end. Connection through ODBC. However i am open to other ideas like using Java with JDBC, etc. Please advise me which option is best and what are the trade-offs. 3) In developing a data-driven software, my attitude would be to run the business logic on the server using triggers and procedures rather than coding it in Visual Basic. In other words if i wish to insert a record, i would do it by calling a stored procedure and passing data values to it from VB, rather than writing an SQL statement through VB. Please advise on this. Any comments/suggestions/experiences would be much helpful. 4) Does SAP DB have API's for backup routines, i.e. can i code my application in a way that i have Backup options on the client and using these options the server couold be backed up. Is there any routine/procedure in SAP DB which could be invoked from VB or Java, etc to do the back-ups. For now i just have these few doubts. Any help on the above or other issues you might want me to consider would be much appreciated. Regards, Girish =============================================== Girish Mohata Phone: (+61) 7 55953300 Fax: (+61) 7 55953320 School of Information Technology Bond University, Australia. URL:http://www.bond.edu.au/it/staff/gmohata.htm =============================================== _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
