[THIN] OT - Software hosting
- From: Jan <tinybeetle@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:38:51 -0400
I have a slightly off-topic question. The company I work for has
developed (over a period of several decades of evolution) an in-house
application for managing our entire line of business. It is a
client-server system that uses an oracle database for the back-end.
After being asked for many years, we are now actively looking at
licensing to other companies in our industry that are in non-competing
locations. Since the software is tightly integrated into our database
structure, our method for doing this would be to host the application
and deliver it via Citrix just like we currently do for ourselves.
The projects that are managed with our system can take from months to
years to complete. One question we've been asked by prospective
licensees is about continued access to their data should we, for
unforeseen reasons, cease being in business.
It has been suggested to put the software in an escrow account.
However, the software is continually being refined and updated by our
development team. Additionally, it is useless without the back-end
database. Obviously that data changes daily too.
For those of you in software licensing via a hosted solution, how do
you address the question of "What happens to my data if you go out of
business?" or "How can I get my data if you go out of business?"
Thanks, Jan
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