Hi All,
First of all thanks to those folks who responded with some helpful points.
To clarify some of the questions asked:
I understand with glaring clarity that I'm am replaceable and know making demands
never works. Over the years, the company's revenue has increased. But also over
the
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Keith Smith
--- On Mon, 7/9/12, AZ Pete p...@cactusfamily.com wrote:
From: AZ Pete p...@cactusfamily.com
Subject: Re: OT: Software Licensing Fees
To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Date: Monday, July 9, 2012, 11:52 PM
Yeah, I feel your pain, but more than you know - I did a fixed bid deal many
years ago and quit keeping track of my hours when I reached the wonderful rate
of $1/hour.
Yep. $1/hour. Yes, that was 20 years ago, but I had much more work to do on a
fixed bid job, so it went below that
I agree with JD.
1. Take a look at what exists today and negotiate a maintenance contract
just for that. Any new features beyond what is there today will entail (1)
a development cost and (2) a maintenance cost for those features. You may
decide to include the maintenance on a new feature is so
/* wrote:
From: AZ Pete p...@cactusfamily.com
Subject: Re: OT: Software Licensing Fees
To: Main PLUG discussion list
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Date: Monday, July 9, 2012, 11:52 PM
Hi All,
First of all thanks to those folks who responded with some helpful
I agree with most of the comments here. However regarding contracts, I
won't tell you not to check with an attorney however that can get really
expensive for $15 /hr.worth of programing work. If you have a written
contract with the business and it does not a have any recitals in it that
require
Hi All,
I'm in a bit of a quandary about fees I'm receiving from a long time client and
thought I'd tap the PLUG brain-trust to get some input.
This situation is this:
A few years ago I developed a PHP application that a client uses to run their
business (its a typical LAMP platform).
I don't quite understand what is going on.
Has their gross revenue remained flat for all these years, do you are not
making add much as before? Or, are you now thinking that the percentage is
too low?
Are you spending more time maintaining their servers and performing updates
than when you
