I'm not sure where to post this so General Questions seems to be the best approach.
Several years ago I wrote a Scheduling program in Clipper for a Boat Tour company. After 10 years of minor changes they decided it was time for an upgrade and, at the time, I figured Alpha was the best approach. I started with V10.5, upgraded to V11, and I had the (web) program almost completed. The last few bugs (at least I thought) were due to some bugs in V11. At that point the client was looking at about $3500 for development and about $500 for a server pkg. Then I upgraded to V12... Oops, the client was now looking at costs of $100/mo forever and decided to just continue with my original program until I could come up with a better idea.
Recently they approached me again. They decided that they didn't really care about web access and asked me if I could just develop it as a desktop program to run on their internal network.
Now I know that Alpha (and many of you) would say sure, that is quite possible but I am actually at a loss on how to go about this without starting over. Desktop seems SO different! I'm aware that the first thing I have to do is remove security but what other gotcha's should I be looking for in downgrading from a web program to a desktop version?
I expect that not many of you have gone this route but I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.
Thanks
Garry
Several years ago I wrote a Scheduling program in Clipper for a Boat Tour company. After 10 years of minor changes they decided it was time for an upgrade and, at the time, I figured Alpha was the best approach. I started with V10.5, upgraded to V11, and I had the (web) program almost completed. The last few bugs (at least I thought) were due to some bugs in V11. At that point the client was looking at about $3500 for development and about $500 for a server pkg. Then I upgraded to V12... Oops, the client was now looking at costs of $100/mo forever and decided to just continue with my original program until I could come up with a better idea.
Recently they approached me again. They decided that they didn't really care about web access and asked me if I could just develop it as a desktop program to run on their internal network.
Now I know that Alpha (and many of you) would say sure, that is quite possible but I am actually at a loss on how to go about this without starting over. Desktop seems SO different! I'm aware that the first thing I have to do is remove security but what other gotcha's should I be looking for in downgrading from a web program to a desktop version?
I expect that not many of you have gone this route but I would appreciate any suggestions you might have.
Thanks
Garry
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