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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 02/01/08 02:43
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. 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.
>
> Mind you we had no previous specification whatsoever other than user
> tutorials we gave to new hires.
>
IMHO, you got robbed. Legal robbery, but robbery none the less.
But if they provided what you contracted for, you need to pay them. If
they did not, you need to dispute what they did not provide according to
the terms of your contract. It's all in what the contract claimed.
See a lawyer.
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