Re: FN-FORUM: Suggested Approach to Developing products

date posted 7th December 2006 08:58

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:17:27AM -0000, Amsi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are planning to develop a set of web based products developed in
> ASP, ASP.net and PHP. We plan to choose products based on the current
> market demand and sell licenses for each of them.
>
> We are planning to oursource the development to developers who will be
> working for us on a monthly salary or payment.
>
> We don't want the developers to know they are working on a commercial
> product, they should just know that they are working on a project for
> a client but this should not effect in anyway the quality and features

Eh ? Why be dishonest ?

Also the way that one might approach/design something that will be installed/used
in many places is different from the way on will do a one_off/in_house product.

> of the product which are currently provided by the current players in
> the market.
>
> What do you guys think would be the best way to put forward the
> project to the developers ?

Be open with them, honest about what you are trying do to.

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