Re: Runtime 2007 Question

There are good, accomodating IT departments; and there are bad, officious
ones. I'll wager I don't have to tell you which you are dealing with.

But, first, assuming you have been hired by the user departments, they
should be escalating up their chain of command, explaining why they need
what they hired you to do... at some point, this demand will cross over from
their managment to IT management. If it is at a high enough level, then the
barriers that the low level functionaries can throw up against a mere
contractor will miraculously disappear and cooperation will reign supreme.

On the other hand, if that does not happen (e.g., top managment in IT swings
more weight than top management on the user side), they cannot possibly
"have enough work for you" to warrant your doing anything other than tell
your clients that you are sorry, but IT will not allow their application to
be installed (remember this is their application, not yours). Under no
condition whatever, should YOU be paying the "outside firm" a fee to certify
THEIR applications.

Offer your client the option that their management can insist that IT assure
themselves of the safety of Microsoft Office, including Microsoft Access,
and IT can install it on all the pertinent user machines.

However, just from what you've said, so far, you'll probably be better off
to bill your clients for work done to date, and part as friends -- because
with an IT department with the attitude you describe, "six months to a year
of additional work" will certainly translate to "six months to a year of
personal misery, during which you will often wish you were starving on a
street corner instead". And, from personal observation, I can assure you
that I am exaggerating very little, if any.

Good luck with this. I'd already have "folded my tent, stowed it into my
brightly colored wagon, and stolen away into the night".

Larry Linson
Microsoft Office Access MVP


"John von Colditz" <johnvonc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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David W. Fenton wrote on 6/30/2009 :
John von Colditz <johnvonc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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For all new applications running on their corporate machines they
require that they are tested versus every other application that
is currently certified by their IT department. According to IT,
there are currently 1500 or so certified applications. Everything
goes to an outside contractor for testing.

I would say FU and run as fast in the other direction as possible.

If they want to use my app THEY PAY ME, not the other way around.

Except that the next job they want me to do is 6-12 months...





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