<div dir="ltr">It doesn't matter. Because a customer needs a method of estimating a work, does not make you his bitch(tm). You can estimate your work, but you seldom work in a vacuum. You are working on his servers, on his setups, his storage devices, around his network equipment. Under most cases, when I get delayed, it's because of the customer, and not me.<div>
<br>Example. One of the newer cellular suppliers has demanded that I install a large system in their new server farm (16 blades and a storage). I have prepared the system, and on the delivery day (which was very time-pressed due to the customer), I have discovered that they had not installed 220v AC there yet. Can't do anything with the servers. The funny thing is that during that time, two or three weeks since, the system is just sitting there, when the server room is being "built" around it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ez<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Nadav Har'El <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyh@math.technion.ac.il">nyh@math.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: [OFFTOPIC] Finding the next lucrative niche (was: Re: Goodbye, Lingnu)":<br>
<div class="im">> Long ago I got out of the PC repair/support business when the 50 NIS<br>
> an hour people took over.<br>
<br>
</div>Am I the only one bothered by all this "per hour" talk?<br>
<br>
What prevents a 50-NIS-per-hour consultant from telling you he worked<br>
for 4 hours on your problem, which it actually took him just one hour in<br>
his lab?<br>
Or a 200-NIS-per-hour consultant from finding your problem in 10<br>
minutes, because he solved exactly this problem a week ago or wrote the<br>
necessary code already?<br>
<br>
So how is the "price per hour" a meaningful variable when comparing two<br>
consultants?<br>
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