There is no issues with either of these things in moving from 7.2.x to 8.x.

Moving from 7.2x to 8.0 is not a migration, it is a transition. Everything will work as before but you get a lot of new functionality. Migration doesn't work as it implies that functionality will change and that one try to migrate old functionality into new.

In 8 we have left all the old functionality as it is and added new and alternative functionality instead. This means that everything done in 7.2x will work the same, but you can choose to do things in a different way in 8.

Will it run faster on in a network environment; What is the target license cost for a deployable copy of an application?

Hi again. DataEase 8 will run slightly faster than 7.2 in any environment and it will run faster on a network but that is simply because we have tweaked the default settings. 

There is no change in Network handling in 8.0 compared to 7.2 but the default configuration is changed from Basic to Opportunistic. 

You can do this on your 7.2 and 6.x application too and it will vastly improve performance.

You can read about it here.

http://www.dataease.com/test_article_view/?ArticleID=00050&field1=00050

Prices

DataEase 8 Developer (Formerly known as the full version) will be priced at £359 but there will be multi-buy discounts. We already have a 5 Group Developer version priced at £1499 which is a 17.5% discount on the full price.

But I guess this is not what you ask about but rather the deployment versions. 

There will be several different tracks for deploying DataEase applications in the future and there will be a clear distinction between developer tracks and retail tracks.

Our goal is to make DataEase a tool of choice for a much larger group of developers, so we will offer a much more flexible licensing and deployment model. For instance the application developers will have the option of packaging and licensing their own DataEase distributions.

Our main customers are Partners and developers, not end users. Anyone that develop software for someone else is a partner in our definition, and anyone that develop software for themselves or "in-house" is a developer.

Lets assume that you are a "in-house" developer that want to deploy a 10 user networked system. 

You will need one developer version to do the development and maintenance and you will then need 10 Group Licenses for your users. They will be able to use the application but they will not be able to do any changes other than data.

The price for this set-up will be:

LifeTime License*  1 x £359 + 10 x £199 =  £2,150 

12 Months PrepayAndGo:    1 x £119 + 10 x £66 = £779