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9 years and 240K later one of my clients is still adding to the system I write for them (in Access). 
  I started in July 2002.  We are about to migrate the data to SQL Server.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 8/22/2011 3:51 PM, Mark Simms wrote:
>> Lately, my 'salesman' has been taking my time/money quotes, and not
>> adjusting them properly.  When I say 2 weeks, he should be telling his
>> customer 4 weeks, instead, he tells them 1 week, and hounds me.
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> Sorry, I've got to "top" that one.
> A couple of years ago I was hired to enhance a system that basically was a
> custom-made CRM for a very specialized business.
> There were no off-the-shelf packages, so their in-house developer wrote it
> over a period of 3 years.
> It was built using VB6, Access 97, and a bunch of 3rd party controls.
> They lost the licenses and the developer, so I gave them the option of
> building out additional functionality via Access 97.
> It was to provide a new source of revenue for them. 6-8 weeks later it was
> done.
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> Management then decided they wanted to rewrite the whole system....I gave
> them a proposal in Access 2007 for $80,000 and 8 months time which they
> rejected. Instead, they signed a development company to do it in dot-net/SQL
> Server. I was disappointed, I thought I had given them a "bargain". Their
> volume did not dictate a need for a heavy-duty database.
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> Two years and $250,000 later, the dot-net system is still nowhere near
> completed.
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> Lesson: in IT freelancing, it's so easy to get burned.
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