>A little off-topic question for the gang:
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>What would you all consider a reasonable hourly rate for a network engineer to upgrade an Office installation to Office 2000 and rework a server internet connection from dial=up to frame relay?
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>The network engineer is a CNE but not Cisco or Microsoft certified.
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It would depend largely on what the network engineer actually did in the process of his work. I've clients that I'd not hesitate to say "just run the upgrade yourself!" for Office-Office2K for a small site where they've got someone capable of reading and following directions. I also know of sites that paid in excess of $200/hr to have someone who really knew what they were doing come out and spend a day setting things up using SMS Server to automate the rollout for thousands of machines across a couple of dozen sites, and the money as well-spent; these sites have a half-dozen MCSEs on thier payroll, some with reasonably good skills with SMS, but having someone with the detailed knowledge of SMS and their rollout requirements paid off very well.

As to the frame-relay cutover from dialup, are they doing the install of CSU/DSU and detailed configuration, or just replacing the modem connectoid with one for the NIC that goes out to the frame relay net? For me here at home, converting to ADSL from dialupo was a matter of dropping the right pieces in place and a little work to switch from ICS to WinGate becase of the PPPoE virtual adapter my ADSL provider uses for static IP; it took me less time than it would've taken the phone monkey SNET sent to do the job, and he've charged me extra to figure out the need for WinGate...