Posted by C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/) on 02/01/08 13:19

On 31 Jan, 21:24, 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 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.

There's not nearly enough info here to answer that - and if you want
to go down that road you should get professional legal advice - but I
strongly suspect that you've messed up in your choice of whom to
approach rather than a failure on their part to deliver what you were
expecting. Did you actually ask them to demonstrate expertise in PHP
consultancy prior to contract?

C.

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