I am working on HP e3000 success stories and the QUANTITATIVE issue
of "the highest consulting rate that Hewlett-Packard charges for its
services" came up.

For instance, what is the hourly rate (both normal and overtime) for the
equivalent of:

   - An HP e3000 SOFTWARE engineer?

   - An HP e3000 HARDWARE engineer?

   - A Unix SOFTWARE engineer?

   - A SAP engineer?

   - An ORACLE engineer?

   - A PricewaterhouseCoopers consultant?

   - A super-duper superdome consultant?

   - ... And so on ...


Are bits-and-bytes consultants more (or less, or the same) as "strategic"
or "partnering" or "management" consultants (such as you would expect
from PwC, for instance)?

Numbers, please! (This reminds me of that time in New York, in early 1994,
when I addressed a quantitative pricing question directly to Oracle and
Sybase representatives and they became highly offended by my audacity :-)

If you feel ashamed of yourself due to the exorbitant prices that you paid,
please feel free to answer in private :-)

All I need are the statistics, not the details.


Thank you for participating in YAS (yet another survey),

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