On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:13:05 CST, "Madison, Marc" said: > H D, my apologize. My FD emails were out of order, and I took your > response out of context. If your looking for a script that will combine > MetaSploit, and Nessus then BidiBLAH will work. Still for $10 grand I > would suggest taking a scripting class at your local college so you can > make your own BidiBlah. > > Math: > BidiBLAH: $10,000 > College scripting class: $350 > > The knowledge you'll gain for ever, priceless. Something to keep in mind however - many people make that comparison, and don't calculate the *TOTAL* cost. If your developer is getting paid $60K/year, the *encumbered* cost (benefits, office, etc) is close to twice that. And if he's writing an in-house BidiBLAh, that's time he's *not* writing stuff you *can't* buy off-the-shelf. As a result, it breaks out as: BidiBLAH: $10,000 scripting clss: $350 6 man-weeks time: $15,000 OK? Got that? Suddenly doesn't look like such a good deal, does it? Maybe you *should* just buy BidiBLAH, and have that guy coding that custom interface between two in-house systems instead.... (And don't say "I only pay my developer $30K, so he can take 2 man-months to do it" - the kind of developer you can keep for $30K is probably going to take a lot more than twice as long as the $60K developer.....)
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