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$50000 for a mission critical, scalable app? They got exactly what they paid for. I would have written an app that doesn't work for only $25000
by altitudinous 7y ago
$50000 for a mission critical, scalable app? They got exactly what they paid for.
I would have written an app that doesn't work for only $25000
- wizzard 7y agoAlternatively, they could have paid IBM a billion dollars and still gotten an app that didn't work. At least they saved some money?
- altitudinous 7y agoWell, at least if they paid a billion dollars they could have had an expectation that the app would work, and they could sue IBM if it didn't. Indeed at that $$$$$ they would have been ripped off though!! At $50k they certainly weren't going to get what they wanted delivered, and they have no-one to blame but themselves.
- meshko 7y agoto be fair, they needed to scale to roughly a thousand concurrent users (where concurrent is used very loosely here). so I wouldn't say that scaleability was really a requirement. 1000 users is nothing.