Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> You appear to be lucky.  That has NOT been my experience.  Too many
companies outsourcing work to India at $15 per hour.

Yeah, I have seen that in a few shops.  Sometimes the company comes out
ahead and sometimes not.

> It seems a lot more prudent for me to stick to my game plan, which is to
continue offering commercial licenses to software for less than it costs to
hire onshore (and offshore) resources to duplicate.

Or you could get some free marketing by donating a portion of code and have
RelationalData declared as the origin in the doc block of the program :-)

> BTW, I did complete an interface to enable RPG developers to interface with
JSON-based clients (like ExtJS) with a remarkably streamlined API, if anyone
is interested.

[Aaron raises his hand] Tell us more please :-)

Aaron Bartell



On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > From: Aaron Bartell
> > There are a lot of AS400 companies out there that aren't afraid to open
> > up their checkbook and pay three digit hourly wages to someone that
> > knows what they're doing (personal experience in the 5 years I have been
> > a vendor).
>
>
> You appear to be lucky.  That has NOT been my experience.  Too many
> companies outsourcing work to India at $15 per hour.
>
> It seems a lot more prudent for me to stick to my game plan, which is to
> continue offering commercial licenses to software for less than it costs to
> hire onshore (and offshore) resources to duplicate.
>
> BTW, I did complete an interface to enable RPG developers to interface with
> JSON-based clients (like ExtJS) with a remarkably streamlined API, if anyone
> is interested.
>
> Nathan.
> www.relational-data.com