Darryl Collins
darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au
Mon Aug 22 19:02:50 CDT 2011
Yeah, I have a large corporate client here with an Excel based solution that I first worked on back in 2001. Every year for the past 10+ years the call me up and change all the specs and reporting. They just call me directly and tell me what they want and when they need it by, and I do it and send them the bill. Been a wonderful arrangement, hope I can keep it going for another 10 years. Cheers Darryl. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 6:41 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] freelancing job sites (OT Reply) 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Two years and $250,000 later, the dot-net system is still nowhere near > completed. > > Lesson: in IT freelancing, it's so easy to get burned. > > > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com