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Posted by axlq on 01/31/08 22:16
In article <12ba17af-39c8-480a-9d32-b25dcf6264f1@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
<egaskill@gmail.com> wrote:
>So I'm trying to figure out something...we need our company's internal
>PHP based intranet site redone as it runs horribly. We recently hired
>a company to come in and take a look at the code and give us some sort
>of specification for what we have and what needs to be done to rewrite
>the code in .NET they charged us around $5000 for Discovery time and
>gave us two sheets of paper with graphs on either.
If you'd have asked here first, you may have gotten many useful
suggestions on re-doing it yourself with PHP and a good Content
Management System (CMS). There are free ones out there (although since
you're a company you'd still pay for it).
> One of the graphs shows the relationship between database tables
>in a flow chart manner and the other shows an interface tree
>starting at "Dashboard" with branches showing the different
>sections and the general actions you can do in those sections. Now
>does any of this crap sound useful at all? Or did we just get
>robbed? We're still withholding half of the $5k and are willing to
>hold in ransom until we get our money's worth.
Sounds to me like they want you to think that you need them. Some
of it may be your fault too, if you specified to them that you want
..NET rather than PHP. Nothing wrong with PHP; in fact it may even
be a lighter load on your servers than .NET.
A lot of consulting companies have canned solutions that they are
comfortable with, and often these solutions involve Microsoft
products.
That's why you see so many companies exposing Exchange mail servers
on the internet without a protective Linux server acting as a
shield.
Withholding an agreed-on payment may get you into legal trouble,
especially if the end product was open ended and ill-defined. You
made a mistake, and mistakes are expensive. If it were me, I'd just
give up on those consultants and find a good CMS for managing my
corporate intranet.
-A
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