It somehow seems this project likes to be restarted over and over again. We have again a complete different approach.
Here’s the history of Xteq5 so far:
Version 1: Designed for exactly one customer. It was implemented as native Windows application (Delphi client and server) with VBScript scripting support only.
Version 2: Rewritten version 1 in RemObjects Oxygene/Chrome. To sum it up how we performed: Bad design, bad performance and bad architecture. Buried.
Version 3: C# using Visual Studio 2005/2008 with a new architecture. Did run, worked good but all test customers told us that it was too complicated (Local Setup, SQL Server setup and maintenance, Backup, Rollout etc.) as we were aiming SMBs. Enterprise customers that would be fine with this, but they also required enterprise support which we can’t provide.
Version 4: Version 3 “In the cloud”. No local server needed, no database backup etc. Due to the insolvency of WUG this version was never finished.
Version 5: The current one. No longer a commercial product, but a spare-time project of myself released as open source.
Hopefully it will not fail this time…
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