A friend passed along this contract offer, and to say the least I was a bit taken back by what was being offered. Below is what was listed for the contract proposal. Now here is what is rather amusing, the project is budgeted for $500-1000. Is it just me or is this ridiculously low? Problem is I am seeing this all over. Has IT work just become so meaningless these days or what? >1) setup a very secure Linux RedHat Enterprise SSL website with Oracle >backend database. > >2) Website design and extranet for clients with the following functionality: > >- Attractive design with some initial welcome photoshop in the main >welcome screen. - Designed for the non-technical user, so that users may >be able to submit technical support tickets. - Fully enabled access from >any web browser. - User login and password per company, each company may >have several employees, all with access to their trouble ticketing system. >Employees with role based menus. - Ability to create a folder structure >that reflects the working framework per organization served. - Easy access >to latest versions of documents (document versioning). - Ability from >users to upload documents (PDF, Excel, Word, etc.) - email notification >when a client uploads a file, or makes a comment on a document. - Ability >to view documents online, instead of downloading attachments. - Documents >with permanent comment logs. - Ability to track projects. - Online >calendar of activities per client company basis, so customers will know >about scheduled time for projects, etc. - Customized branding to indentify >client organizations (upload their own logo). - Protected by 128bit SSL >encryption. - Ability from users to create troubletickets, and track >progress online. Logs. > >All work done will belong to me, copyrights, etc. > >Reference website: >http://www.trichys.com/intranet-extranet/extranet-solution.vm >I need the entire functionality of this website in order to provide it to >a very small number of companies I will be servicing as computer services; >no cost to them.