Cost-Effective Application Development

When evaluating database applications for mobile clients, you should ask these questions about the tools for developing mobile applications:

• How easy is it to convert an existing client/server application to a mobile application?
• What tools are available for upsizing tables, schemas, data, and referential-integrity information from a desktop database such as Microsoft Access or Microsoft FoxPro to an RDBMS engine that supports multiple mobile clients?
• What tools are available for building best-of-breed, three-tiered applications?