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Originally posted by Kevin2
bhutocracy it was 4 years ago (the same time I had mine developed for the adult biz) and it was a stand alone shopping cart with nada intergration. If we wanted the integration to our AS 400 store sytems and dealer network it would have cost over $100k.
The large multinational I was working for had their main development teams in Germany and the cost to develop systems via them was very very expensive. They would have 6 months of meetings to discuss the requirements then they would allocate a few analysts and so and so on. Some of the small projects can take up to 3 years. Even after all this work the systems were as buggy as hell and you spent the next year fixing the crap at even more expense.
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as I said, just a guess, at least I was right on the late nineties part .. well 2000, same deal really, prices didn't change until 2001 when the market crashed and redundant employees set up their own business to compete with their old companies at a fraction of the price..
The point is though that it was for a much larger store network than the adult one (presumeably), and the six months of requirements meetings do usually produce better results in a project than none. However obviously it's still possible for projects to fail, paying that much for it DOESN'T mean it's infallibale.. it's just get a better chance of working and with 400 store systems it sounds like there was more at stake than the adult. but again, im just arguing without the facts here.
Today you wouldn't pay that, for a starters a lot of companies would just provide off the shelf stuff or recycled code themselves now that shopping carts have been pretty much refined.