I'm about 1 semester short of graduating from college with my Systems Engineer degree. I've started my own software development company here in a country in South America last week, and so far I managed to land myself a nice account. I have to build a simple enough program that will take me 6-7weeks to complete and I'll charge 2000$. 40...
Outsourcing is typically disliked by programmers, but does anyone know any empirical studies of the cost/benefits of outsourcing for a company? I'm not looking for personal experiences here (as entertaining/frightening as they may be), but for actual research studies. ...
Why did Sun (now owned by Oracle, I know) develop the Java Plaform? How does it make business sense? It seems to me like it would be a very expensive project (also, any ideas on how much they spent/are spending to develop/maintain the platform?). Are they making money by selling support or something? ...
I operate a small IT consulting firm. One of my clients has expressed an interest in having an ASP.Net programmer on-site at their location for a six-month contract, with an option to hire. I've never really operated my company as a body shop (renting out talent for the long term) and an unfamiliar with how to price my quote. Assume I ...
Hi, Is there a website like stackoverflow but for business executives? I would like to ask questions to vp or c level business people. ...
Hi Everyone, I recently started a little company with a couple of guys. Ours is the typical startup, a lot of ideas, dreams, talent and work hours :P. Our initial business plan was to develop a DM (Document Manager) with several features found on DropBox and other tools but with a big differentiator. Then we got in the team this Busine...
Hi. I am a freelance programmer working on a php project which I estimate will take me and my team of another 2 programmers around 2 months to complete. This does not include time needed for testing and bug fixing, which I estimate will take between 15 - 30 days. How much do you think I should charge for this project? ...
Real world scenarios (here "you" means "I") : You are doing undergraduate "research" (in reality programming) for a theoretical CS professor who is a lousy programmer in general, let alone in the language that you will be using. You are trying to help a friend with an IT aspect of his/her startup idea. You are trying to pick up a prog...
I would prefer if those who answer this question state whether or not they have experience developing in an Agile Environment or if they are speaking from a theoretical standpoint. Backstory: Let's say there is an opportunistic company that develops technologically innovative products (multi-touch interfaces, speech recognition devices...
We are planing to invest in new software for our factory. Targeting application is standard users application for handling data of goods (bills, finances, accounting management, goods, simple manufacturing with human inputs of data). One of our partner whit the highest chance for getting job, have pretty good application, most of things...
HI, I want to know how to create a new item record using a template in Dynamics AX 2009 .NET Business connector. I know how to do this using Dynamics AX 2009. Is there a static method that i can call? I also want to show the new item information to the user before saving it. Is this possible? Please help Thanks ...
How do I get paid for developing an app that is free to the public. ...
I was at a meeting recently for our startup. For half an hour, I was listening to one of the key people on the team talk about timelines, the market, confidentiality, being there first and so on. But I couldn't help ask myself the question: all that talk about confidentiality is nice, but there isn't much talk about physical security. Th...
I have a fact table containing 8 Million rows with 1 Million rows increase per month. The table already contains indexes on it. The table is used by IBM Cognos environment to generate reports. Currently I am looking for way to optimize the table SELECT statements. As first try, I partitioned the table (each partition has equal distribu...
I have a corp that I'm considering using for my software consulting work. Can people who've had experience with the corp-to-corp setup tell me the difference in pay per hour. ...
This is a rather broad question..but throwing it out there. So let's say someone comes up with a decent web service idea, build an app on open source framework. Hosts it on a VPS for less than $100/month and things pick up, users start showing up. 1 - Assumming the above happens, how does one grow from a VPS to a full fledged internet c...
We have 5000 reports built in Business objects and want to change the report delivery folder name from the back-end. How to do this? Anyone knows in which table the information is stored and if it is encrypted? ...
Can anyone please give me an example of Business Requirement Document for e-business with respect to Data Warehousing? ...
Google provides many services - Google Adwords, Google Adsense, Google Search APIs which are directly or indirectly generating lot of revenue for Google. But what does Google gain by providing free email service with 10's of Gigabytes of space at free of cost? And I bet the number of registered users are in millions...and obviously ther...
In Business Object XI 3.0, while logging in publishing wizard I am getting following error. Any Help please Logon Error Transport error: Communication failure.(FWM 00001) OK Even CMC option is also not working. Yesterday also it was giving same problem. I had reinstalled the software. then it started working. Now today it is ag...