Re: Delphi 2005 Win32 development stopped

Lord Crc <lordcrc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:q6c6g1tttmmih86tv0v5ih3fglbnsqvg5d@xxxxxxx:

> On 17 Aug 2005 04:31:40 -0700, Larry Drews
> <ldrewsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>In the U.S. a professional Delphi programmer will bill about
>>$60/hour, and I assume the cost of an employee is about the same. So
>>we are talking about less than 8 hours of work to pay for the upgrade.
>> If you think that D2006 stability and performance would save you 8
>>hours or more over the next year then upgrading would be a profitable
>>investment.
>
> Ive never been a stand-alone consultant, so I'm not quite sure how
> this works, but from the above I see that you bill your customers
> after how many hours it WOULD have taken, had you used an inferior
> tool? How do you make that slide?
>
> - Asbjørn
>

If you have bid a project "fixed price" then the customer pays you the same
amount regardless of how much time you spend, so any savings in time
directly increases your $/hour result.

If you bid on a project on an hourly rate basis, then the customer pays for
the extra time it takes you. If they become aware that you are taking
longer than necessary because you refuse to upgrade your tools, you will
probably have an unhappy customer. You also open yourself to competition
from other consultants/contractors who can promise the customer that it
will take them fewer hours and consequently cost less.

.

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