Hosted FM Servers for retail mobile app

[doncarp]

Hi-

A group here are developing a mobile application of laptop FM app which loads from a subscription source for historical data. Since none of the major app hosting services we have found are offering FM server, my question is: Are there any commercial hosting services approved by Apple, that provide the ability to collect and account for access to a third party data source, pre process that data for the mobile app and then "feed" that data to subscribed mobile devices in a way that Apple will approve so far as getting their cut of the subscription data revenue? I'm not actually sure that we need FM Server, as the server ends up being nothing but a big data safe to the client who downloads only once with no query requests to the server other than identifying the specific set of data to deliver from what could easily be a couple of dozen prepackaged files with different versions created three or four times a week for each of the geographically identified units. This seems more of a file serving than a DB inquiry.

The mobile GO app would need only to filter and sort for relatively simple functions such as Min() or Max() values. We might want this data to be in a form that is easily handed off to a graphing api for the mobile devices, unless FM has gotten a lot more detailed in its design of data graphs from what is available in FM11. Perhaps the more general over arching question is whether FM is configuring its products to serve primarily business apps for mobile devices or are they looking as well to providing a malleable database api with a good library of I/) ability. As you can also see, this is not a real time data base processing server task. The crunching of historical data files is only done once to produce specific mobile menus of entrée files to download and chew.

The answers to these questions seem relevant before we throw significant money at MYSQL development along with custom preprocessing api's.