There are a lot of advantages of moving from a server based system to cloud. I've been on server based systems for 20 years, and the headaches associated with them have just gotten worse over the years. 

With all the constant updates that districts had to do, iIt was very frustrating because as anyone who has Dentrix or any of those other legacy programs knows, when you do an update, you have to shut everything down. So everyone has to hop out of Dentrix, I can't tell you how many times we heard that. And then you have to do the updates. You have to update every workstation. The updates sometimes don't work. They glitch and then you're sunk. So I've had so many days of lost production over the years. It was utterly frustrating.

There are other obvious advantages too, like immediate backup in the cloud. So your backup solution is much more simplified than a legacy based system. When we do have any sort of update with Dentrix, a lot of times those updates would be very intrusive and it would break something. 

It appears that Curve tends to test out their updates in advance. They happen seamlessly behind the scenes. You walk in and they're done. You just open it up. But really, what it boils down to is a lot of the software updates with Dentrix are fixes of their own issues, not feature improvements. Curve, it seems to be feature improvement heavy, and these are actionable features that happen every month.