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Database Pricing??

Hi,

Try to sell a database.

What's are the going rates.

And is there a stander rate card.

How are databases charged on? by the number of tables, forms, hours of work.

Can someone recommend a book or software for this.

I was searching all over the place for something.

Thank you

John

sh*******@hotmail.com
Nov 12 '05 #1
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On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:24:57 -0500, "john" <sh*******@hotmail.com>
wrote:

There are several ways to look at this. Here are a few:
1: Any amount that can be justified by a good return on investment.
The idea is that if you can save me 100K/yr, I'll pay at least 150K
for that app, regardless if it took you 1 hour or 10 years to write
it.
2: T&M = Time and Materials. Convince a client to pay for your time
(=some decent hourly rate) and materials. Works best for custom
software. You're like an extension to their IT department.
3. KLOC: Kilo lines of code. Outdated, because encourages bloat.
4: What others are charging. If you write a utility or small consumer
app, check with downloads.com or tucows.com. Someone else probably
already wrote a similar app and charges about $59 for the full
version.

-Tom.
Hi,

Try to sell a database.

What's are the going rates.

And is there a stander rate card.

How are databases charged on? by the number of tables, forms, hours of work.

Can someone recommend a book or software for this.

I was searching all over the place for something.

Thank you

John

sh*******@hotmail.com


Nov 12 '05 #2
fp
1. Try posting this question to alt.computer.consultants.moderated.

2. Check out realrates.com.

If it is shrink-wrap and you are going to sell it to many customers then you
can charge a lower price. If it is for one customer, then the price will be
determined by what you negotiate with your client. There are no fixed rules
on what to charge. You will basically want to charge enough to make some
money but not so much to encourage competition to come in and underbid you.

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Fred Parker
Lynn Consulting Group, L.L.C.
http://www.lynnconsultinggroup.com
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Nov 12 '05 #3

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