Hi All,

I've got an Access application that was originally developed for a customer
who is an independent fire investigator. The same customer has now 'sold'
the app to fellow independent investigators, both other fire investigators
and other insurance investigators and it has been 'in the field' for a
little more than four years.

The original customer who paid for the development and has been sharing it
with his buddies now wants to place an ad in an industry-specific
publication and start selling this app.

Quite frankly, although the app has worked famously for the current users
and support of those customers has been negligible, distributing this to a
wider audience scares the heck out of me. I'm proud of the app and the
enthusiasm that the current users have for it but there will be a HUGE
difference between 50 users and 500 users. So.............I need to
consider what it takes to distribute this. Some of the questions that keep
me up at night:

Although currently a one-user application, it would also make sense to
develop a means to let an entire
office use the application. The user front-end would talk to a SQL
Server backend.
Do I use the developer tools to develop the installation package or migrate
to InstallShield or Wise
or.......?

Where do I look for deployment specialists who are familiar with Access
applications? If not the newsgroups then how do I find those 'experts' who
know how to take the next step? The newsgroups are great but I'm up for
finding the right 'experts' to contract with; just have no idea where to
look

I know many of you have developed robust applications, what is the next
step?

Karen