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Originally posted by Marcus
They're using Vignette StoryServer. I used that once at my old company and it's incredibly expensive. Spending a million bucks for the software, training (it's difficult to learn) and consultants is nothing.
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Vignette? damn, we were very close to using that, yeah.. very expensive. On one hand I am really outraged at the amount of cash spent because it is public money, but on the other hand I do find it funny seeing a lot of disbelief coming from a forum where most people think 1k is top dollar for a site, and a competition is a valid way of contracting and paying for work.
1k is a half hour meeting at a decent sized corporate design company talking about the proposal to even pitch at the client. Large companies and governmental agencies require an absurd degree of documentation and qualifications to even think about laying the content out as a flowchart let alone notepad html. These design companies aren't college kids photoshopping for beer money, and these client companies aren't like webmasters, webmasters already know how to do most of the stuff and just need a pretty page or two to slap on their backend. These are large businesses that need it done right first time from the ground up and take months and months to complete, not a few days. It's a totally different world, and I don't agree that it's a good one either.
Even so 4M is a fuckload of cash and it's a disgrace. The sales people from the design house who got them to cough up the 4M just saw their market value jump 50%. They'll be in demand.