Chris
Wed May 12 08:33:51 CDT 2004
I think Paul was trying to make a point about the value of money. What is
your time worth? If a tool costs $300, then that can directly equate to
hours.
If you are a consulting company and you bill $100/hr, that's only 3 hours.
If you're an independent contractor and you bill $60/hr that's only 5 hours.
If you work for pretty low wages and only bill $30/hr then it's 10 hours.
If you feel you're only worth what a cashier at Wal-Mart makes it's probably
about 30 hours.
In any case, it's less than a week's worth of wages.
So then you look at the tool. Could you write the IP*Works tool in under a
week (I know I couldn't)? Can you replicate the functionality you need from
the library in less than a week (I assume you don't need everything it
offers for this project)? Will you every do another project where you might
again use the tool?
To me it's a pretty simple business equation, and for *me* it's well worth
$300. I have purchased several 3rd party tools using this logic and have
never been dissatisfied. You simply need to do the math based on your own
time as money coefficient.
--
Chris Tacke, eMVP
Co-Founder and Advisory Board Member
www.OpenNETCF.org
---
Windows CE Product Manager
Applied Data Systems
www.applieddata.net
"Boris Nienke" <nospam@nsonic.de> wrote in message
news:jwxapqsfp8k0.jestx9t3vuf7$.dlg@40tude.net...
> Oh, well - please stop to explain how to earn money in this group. Believe
> me when i say: I KNOW IT!
>
> But as a matter of fact: if i can get $300 for a software, i cannot buy
ONE
> solution for $500 just to be able to make my programm. Maybe you can
> understand that.
>
> I've never said, that IP*Works is NOT WORTH the money! NEVER! I've just
> said: it's too expensive FOR ME (and my project)
>
> so please stop to explain me things about Money per Hour, worth or not
> worth ;-)
>
> A Mercedes S500 is worth every penny (great car!) - but it's simply too
> expensive for me to drive 30 Miles to work and back home.... a Renault or
> Toyata or even a SMART is doint this job very well for 1/10 of the price
of
> the mercedes (of course: without navigation, air condition, ....)
>
> Boris
>
> On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:30:41 -0700, Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:
>
> > Let's see: $50/hour for your time...that's 12 hours worth to equal the
cost
> > of the software...well worth it unless you already know a whole lot
about
> > the protocols that you need to implement.
> >
> > Paul T.
> >
> > "Boris Nienke" <nospam@nsonic.de> wrote in message
> > news:1opvg34e3acrl$.gwl8jnxxfyec.dlg@40tude.net...
> >> OK, MUCH too expensive! $599,- and up... sorry no way
> >>
> >> boris
> >>
> >> On Tue, 11 May 2004 09:00:07 -0500, casey chesnut wrote:
> >>
> >>> you can do your own google search for 'ipworks'
> >>> casey
> >>>
http://www.brains-N-brawn.com
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> "Boris Nienke" <nospam@nsonic.de> wrote in message
> >>> news:13e0f5xinbphu$.o6xykqdag2gw.dlg@40tude.net...
> >>>> On Mon, 10 May 2004 10:40:50 -0500, casey chesnut wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> for sending email, i would try IP*Works CF edition, it does SMTP.
> >>>>> i'm assuming it handles attachments.
> >>>>
> >>>> where can i find it?
> >>>>
> >>>> i think the other one i remember was "mosework" or something like
> > that -
> >>>> but i cannot find it again... and "moseworkssoftware.com" is not
> > available
> >>>> anymore?
> >>>>
> >>>> Boris