>I never said dictate....I said consult with them. Many "consultants" just do whatever the client wants, because "the client pays the bills". When you do that, you are not being a consultant.
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>>A client or a patient relies on the ability and expertise of the Lawyer/Doctor/Accountant but not IT clients. No matter how good or expert an IT consultant is, or a Developer, the client have to think even hundred times if the development tool he is using has no good profile, no much support etc. It takes two to Tanggo: The Developer and The Development Tool.
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>Not really true...the client should rely on the expertise of the consultant too.

On these lines, we have to act as consultants more than you, probably, because our users know less in the average, and when they know some, they tend to think they know a lot. Their word will surely be the last, but our profession demands that the possibilities be laid out neatly and clearly before them, with pros and cons balanced as well as possible, and then leave it up to them to decide. "I have to tell you this, else once you may ask me why didn't I".

The final decision is theirs, of course, but they should hear even the things which they surely won't buy.

Hey, where's the dispute? I've actually said the same thing. We'll find something some other time.