Le dimanche 29 juillet 2012 à 12:47 +0200, Alban Hertroys a écrit : > On 29 Jul 2012, at 11:56, Vincent Veyron wrote: > If upper management is any good, they'll be happy to have a chat about the situation and keep an eye out and a direct line to your people open, so that they can hear both sides. He's probably not on their radar right now. > Well, in that case upper management is made of elected officials (this is an administration for a medium-sized city in France). The way it works is : -upper management somehow decides to budget a _large_(*) amount of money for an application for the legal department. Budgeting always takes places in december of year N-1, nothing can be put in after that. -every year, a bidding procedure for some city takes place in may/june of year N, and is won after a few meetings (always by the same company), coincidentally a little less than the amount allotted six months before that... No bidding is needed for my application, which is priced at a tenth of the average budget, and below the legal limit that triggers the procedure. Strangely though, it appears strictly impossible to get a couple thousand euros to test it in the service for a year. So the alpha male is probably obeying his masters (the manager who took my product and was sidelined is a union representative). It looks like I am going to need luck, indeed ;-) (* : average is 50 000 euros, with ~20 000 euros maintenance per year for the foreseeable future + licences ; and for a crappy application I'm told; larger cities will commend muuuch larger bills ) -- Vincent Veyron http://vincentveyron.com/ Logiciel de gestion des sinistres assurances et des dossiers contentieux pour le service juridique -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
