An interesting thread...
The truth is, a single defined application can take one person 1 hour to
accomplish, and another one 20 hours to accomplish, and the rates that each
person charges will vary by geography, demand, confidence in price
sensitivity, etc.
Amazingly enough, there is no way to determine whether the 1 hour job will
be better or worse than the 20 hour job, and price doesn't always correlate
with quality.
A friend of mine once shared the following cool goodie with me;
"Pick any two: good, fast, cheap"
Implying that you could NEVER get all three. Over the years, I've discovered
that to be a true-ism for the most part (there are exceptions), both in what
my company can produce, and what I can get from vendors or employees.
When bidding on a job, we've had people say, "but so and so said he can do
it for less", and I welcome them to try it.. Sometimes it works and
sometimes it doesn't.. Development companies (with higher overhead) tend to
charge more, but you get more too.. You get a stable company (hopefully!)
that will be around to support the product, make suggestions that make sense
because they have a large brainpool to feed off of, and also a company that
has a higher ability to be responsible for when things go wrong (and
sometimes things go wrong)..
My two cents (maybe your 10.00.. ).. grin..
Gregory
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 6:39 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Hotel Booking Engine up
>
>
> Touchy, touchy, touchy.....
>
> Look I guessed the hours it took, I wrote something similar
> many years ago
> for a resort here in Australia that had more functionality
> than what I have
> seen so far, came with a complete wizard for bookings etc.
> Mind you I have
> only had a quick look, but I guess the support and updates
> would bring the
> price in line. Maybe you should have mentioned this in your
> first email,
> rather than for people to try and guess these things.
>
>
> regards
>
> Andrew Scott
> ANZ eCommerce Centre
> * Ph 9273 0693
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 12 September 2000 12:16
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Hotel Booking Engine up
>
>
> Well instead of writing and saying that, write your own then.
> As a matter of
> fact it did take longer than that, there has been a lot of
> feedback from
> hotels who beta tested it. Of course at the end I said it is
> negotiable,
> $5000 include full source code, SQL scrips, 1 year tech
> support and updates.
> But hey you're welcome to do what you want on your own time,
> just don't
> think you need to knock people on the list if you don't agree
> with what they
> charge. Maybe I will find out in a couple weeks people don't
> want to pay
> that much and I'll cut the price, don't need to be insulted
> on this forum
> though.
>
>
> Bob Everland
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott, Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 9:16 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Hotel Booking Engine up
>
>
> I assume that the price is $5000 (US), I see about 2 days
> worth of work in
> this system and don't see why it should cost $5000 (US) when
> it would cost
> me about $1000 to write myself:-)
>
>
> regards
>
> Andrew Scott
> ANZ eCommerce Centre
> * Ph 9273 0693
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 12 September 2000 12:00
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Hotel Booking Engine up
>
>
> Anyone who was or is interested in a hotel booking can
> now view a
> demo at
> http://www.reactivevision.com/products . There is an example
> of a portal
> site and a singular hotel site. The price is $5000 but is negotiable
> depending on what kind of configuration you are looking for.
> This is a new
> products so feedback is appreciated and fixes and
> enhancements can be done
> in a minimal amount of time.
>
> Bob Everland
>
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