[discostu]

But you do need to know that to judge the scope of the application, which in turn relates to the development time. From how I read the description it wasn't just a front end, they did the back too. I think you're grossly over simplifying what he outlined. Which just goes to show how little true info he really gave. Clearly not enough to be questioning his estimates.

[Dominic Harr]

From how I read the description it wasn't just a front end, they did the back too.

No, go back and read.

The 'back end' was a SQLServer db with stored procs. The code itself was only 2-tiered, not 3-tiered as I would have done. They put the 'business logic' in the SPs, in the DB. I would have seperated that logic out into the middle-tier, personally, but that wasn't the project he described.

Seriously, he gave plenty of detail, and any decent developer could have built it. A web form that sent procs to an SP, and then wrote links to the screen.

Very simple stuff. Not rocket science at all.