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Normally you put these kind of things in a contract beforehand. Nobody signs here anything in Holland without wanting to have some kind of exclusivity... The ga
by MrQuincle 12y ago
Normally you put these kind of things in a contract beforehand. Nobody signs here anything in Holland without wanting to have some kind of exclusivity... The game is to get such a contract so they don't benefit direct competition and you have a valuable business model that can operate horizontally over the entire market. Exclusivity for the entire market (all niches, at all times, in all product forms) is extremely expensive, so they never want that. :-) It's even possible to come up with revenue from the SaaS offering feeding back to them thanks to them being one of your first customers in a pilot.
That all being said, I don't know the specifics of your contract and your relationship with your clients or verbal agreements of people in your company with this client.
- devdilemma 12y agoThere's no agreement outside of the contract that says we were contracted to write the software according to provided specifications. But you are correct we offered an exclusivity to the client but they were not interested in paying the price. Ultimately, I believe the company(dev shop) has decided to sit with the customer and offer exclusivity or some kind of partnership on the software one last time this week take it from there.