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Posted by larry on 02/01/08 03:33
On Jan 31, 1:24 pm, egask...@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
Since I'm a PHP person and don't use MS Windows I would have no clue
about the benefits of .NET except that some web apps in .NET I can't
access form Linux or Mac. That's all I got there.
> 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
Does this relationship reflect your current system or does it look
improved?
> 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.
Does this interface design look like tour current system or does it
look improved?
> Now does any of this crap sound useful at
> all?
Dunno I don't know your current system compared to theirs. Though the
graphs are skimpy they may be all that is necessary to convey the
message - but I would think there should be some sort of narrative to
explain what the changes will do to improve your currrent system, what
the hardware load is projected to be (including licensing as .NET can
be a tad more license encumbered than PHP), time frame for
development, data conversion (is it included), etc.
> 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.
Well that says it was pretty open-ended on their part to figure out
what you might want though the user tutorials might help but they
probably didn't discuss the intent of the system or anything else
except how to input data and get reports, so maybe not.
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