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本帖最后由 searain 于 2009-10-23 09:27 PM 编辑
6# yi_ran
"Wow. A few days for you, or 4 months for average developers, to finish a 17 months project. I am speechless. "
Not how good I am, just they have no idea that there are free open source systems they can use instead of in house developing.
They had a 17 months project to train low skill workers. And they thought they would need all kind online platforms to support their project, 7 or 8 at their list, such as for online course management, online books and magazines, client relationships management, online community, wiki, blog etc. They wanted to hire one full time developer (I applied for) to develop these systems and one full time online marketer to use and manage these online systems.
They asked how much I would charge them if I would develop all these systems for them (but that job was for a full time position on contract base). I gave them detailed reports and told them for each major requirement they had, there were at least more than 2-3 pretty good open source systems they could select from. And install these systems was easy.
Modify or add patches etc. if needed might be time consuming, if I got the job, most of my time would be on these modification and patches. And also on some small tasks if no good open source to use which I would have to develop by myself.
They asked me a lot of tech details about these systems I recommended, which they didn't know anything about. And then they told me the project is postponed. I guess that they thought they just didn't need the patches or other small tasks. They could just use the open source systems I recommended to do most of the works and forget about other small issues.
I don't think the knowledge about the systems I recommended is a big deal, it is common knowledge, so I didn't keep it as secrets and I tell them all about it trying to get that job. Which worked in the first place, they offered me job the next day but then I thought they told themselves "wait a minute, if it was so easy, why we need this guy?" |
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