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GlacierThese numbers are not realistic. First of all, a company like Equis
is not going to permanently hire contractors to write their software. They
are going to hire people on fulltime for continuity from version to version
which means they are not paid by the hour, but by the year. Good
programmers can be had for $100K a year. I don't have any experience with
MS but I would estimate that an application the size of TradeStation would
require 4 GOOD programmers 18 months to develop, then another 6 months or so
for testing and release. If you have 4 GOOD programmers, then you have to
have 1 GOOD manager. This is just the development team. You also need
someone to do requirements at the beginning (a GOOD manager can do a lot of
this), and you need document writers and alpha testers at the end.
If you can't get 4 GOOD programmers, 8 mediocre ones won't do. Nor will 12.
You'd be better off to put your money to work elsewhere.
Of course, if you're just interested in adding web browsers TO YOUR TRADING
SOFTWARE!!! and a linking it to a trading platform and cranking out cheap
point releases, anyone will do. Just pay your marketing people more.
Kent
-----Original Message-----
From: Animal <animal@xxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: MS 7.2 upgrade A JOKE
I'm a programmer with over 15 year TA experience and I'd bid it for 125@xxx
And you wouldn't have to explain the whole mess either. But then MS has
never received my suggestions very warmly. Even when I offered to do it or
explain it to them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Robb
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: MS 7.2 upgrade A JOKE
People need programming. Programmers, expert in TA, cost $250/hr. Business
men, nowdays, don't want to pay that much to an employee. They might pay
that much for lunch, but not for someone who knows more than they do about
the nifty little charting co. they just bought.
Add it up: $250/hr. x 2000 hrs/yr. is $500,000. Now you are talking about
what he has to pay to get into that important country club his wife has
selected for him.
What we think they need is a VP & general manager for Equis who
understands how to listen to important users give expert consultaion advise,
completely free of charge, on net boards, and e lists.
But, life, evidently, isn't like this in business, today; because to do
this the VP - Gen Mgr. will have to hire two new people: One, the programmer
at $259/hr., and then another expert to explain to him what it all means.
The boss adds all this up in his head before cocktails and sees an extra
expense of over $1,000,000 million a year, which is what his new boat was
going to cost - and frankly, just says no. No one, certainly, as low on the
totem pole as anyone at equis, who reads this, will successfully challange
him on this matter.
Remains,
MR
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