<quote who="Christopher Hicks"> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:03:05PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >> --On Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:00 PM -0400 "Zembower, Kevin" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >After struggling with LDAP for many hours with little success, I've >> >decided that a more efficient way to accomplish my goals would be to >> pay >> >someone to do what I've been unable to do. I've gotten my supervisor to >> >approve a contract not to exceed $300 to accomplish these goals. My >> >overall goal is to create an LDAP schema to store attributes of our >> >staff, including some attributes unique to our organization, and to >> >allow them to view sections of our intranet based on this information. >> >The specific deliverables include: >> >> Although someone might take you up on this, I think you've seriously >> underestimated the cost of a well trained LDAP consultant. Your "$300" >> *might* cover 2-3 hours of work. What you've listed seems like it would >> take a lot more time than that. Good luck. > > As a consultant I would have to agree whole-heartedly. IBM won't take > consulting contracts for less than $10k. Small guys with no experience > may work for that. You'll end up with a high school or college kid who > has read the book and thinks he can do anything. lol. There's always a > *chance* you'll get a clued kid, but the odds are not in your favor. > > So from a cursory guess of what you're talking about, you might be able to > get a way with a couple of days of consulting at $800-$2000/day for > someone competent. If there are any distractions, difficulties, or kinks, > this is easily at a week of time which is at a minimum going to be 20 > times your budget. Anybody worth their salt will want to document things > reasonably which doubles the time, but guarantees that if you and the > consultant are in a car wreck that the poor sod who comes along to clean > up the mess won't curse you for many days. >
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