Feasibility Study for Potential fP Software - Part #3 (finalfor the day)

[GCC Consulting]

> 
> I'm trying to condense the thread a bit, here.  I'm curious 
> why the mixed financial viability rating from Keith.  On one 
> hand it wouldn't be worth much, and on the other it would 
> eventually be worth a lot?  That seemed a bit contradictory.  
> Unless it's based on initial vs mature.  As I see it, you 
> can't really screw around with something like this--it's 
> going to have to be right as possible straight off or it's 
> not worth having.
> 
> Let's be frank, here...  -IF- I could pull off such a 
> venture, we're talking months of development and testing.  
> We're also talking about something that vastly impacts 
> scalability.  I was thinking mid 4-digits as a minimum.  Say 
> $5k.  That's more than a lot of fP installations alone, and 
> you -still- have to buy each copy of filePro.  But it's only 
> numbers like that which would really make it viable, as the 
> volume isn't there, period.

Mark,

There are some windows products that will mirror 2 or more servers in the
price range your are suggesting.

The software allows for selecting what is to be mirrored.

Not quite as flexible as you describe.

However, remember that if a company is to access both database sets, they
should install the license server an a machine totally different then the
ones the databases are on.  In that way if one fails, there will be little
or no down time in getting up a running on the remaining server.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting