Some observations: Moving won't fix it -- it will just fail (probably differently) in two locations rather than 1.
Let the client's wallet make the decision. I t will , likely, be a lot more difficult (expensive) to slosh through through bowels of someone else's non-working Perl/PHP/Other code, that to start fresh with a packaged CF cart (or one you develop). Convince the client to pay you to put together a CF prototype of a solution. Presented properly, it should be an easy sale! For each day that passes, the client loses revenue, loses hosting costs, and realizes negative ROI on his web site investment. Ask him how much it cost him per day? Then propose a prototype for N days costs. Do nothing -- slowly twist in the wind -- spewing $ as you do! Do the prototype ( or the complete rewrite) you will recover your investment! What are you waiting for, Mr. Customer? It will never get any less expensive! HTH Dick On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 08:24 PM, chad wrote: > We were approached by a company to refresh their web site. It > currently > is a mess of PHP, CGI, and perl. Basically it does not work. It pulls > a 500 error everytime something is added to the basket. > > They want us to quote moving the site since they cannot get anyone to > fix their current web site. I am really afraid of moving the site to > one of our servers since we don�t have one that is PHP/Perl. > > I am afraid we will spend more time fixing the old site then it is > worth > and once we got it running they would bail out on the CF refresh we > quoted them. > > I would rather leave the site at the current provider, fix the site so > it at least works, then start developing the CF refresh. > > Then comes my fear that once we get the site running they will never > want to do the CF refresh we quoted them. > > I suppose we will have to invest in a lawyer to draw up a contract that > says we will fix the current site and they WILL contract use to do the > CF refresh. > > Any other ideas on how to approach this situation? I don�t want to get > burned. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
