If you had more of these deals you could setup a hosted environment (your choice of DBMS including U2 and D3). You use your own licenses on that system and do your development there. End-users can SSH into their own production accounts and pay you some monthly rate for using your app and resources until they're ready to move up. Voila', your own ASP. The initial cost of getting a licensed DBMS and ports may be prohibitive, but the advantage is that the system still belongs to you when the end-user has moved on to their own environment or even to a hosted solution of their own. If you already have a licensed environment then it should cost nothing to move the license to a hosted box, so the cost of getting this going is trivial.
Note that (to my knowledge) it violates license agreements to run live end-users on development software provided by any of the MV DBMS vendors. You might be able to get a free temporary license to let users run for a couple months on a "try before they buy" basis. If you can manage that then they can host a DBMS locally and still pay you for your app. Couple ways to cut this cookie... Let me know if any of this is of interest. Tony Nebula R&D [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-----Original Message----- >I would like to acquire... an older Pick AP-Pro system... I only > need 3-5 users. > >I have a new client that I want to break into the Pick world >with an inexpensive application to start. I can develop their >new app on my own AP-Pro yet in 2 months they will want their >own system. We've explored the concepts of a W2K/D3 or U2 box >and its cost would kill the deal. I want to get my foot in the >door and as they grow, we can convert later. -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
