Man hours required-Chatting System

[ehsn1998]

Hi,
1-How many man hours ( rough estimate) does it required to develop a web-based chat system like chatblaster or any other similarweb-based chating system.
2-In which techelegies it is recommed to develop a web-based chat system.
3- Is it the spell checker available, free of cost or one has to purchase it.
Thank you.


Best Regards
Ehsan

[Manish Malik]

Originally posted by ehsn1998
1-How many man hours ( rough estimate) does it required to develop a web-based chat system like chatblaster or any other similarweb-based chating system.

Haven't seen chatblaster (and too lazy to google for it now), the time depends on the features you want to put in, and the available components you are willing to use. A simple no-features HTML-form-refresh based chat may take well, 2 man-hours or so, complete with interface+testing. A full-fledged chat system may take many more, but then there are many available open source chat components. Using them will cut down the man-hours required. (infact, in most cases, you don't need to do much with the available chat sources in PHP, ASP - just read the docs and customize it to your requirements).

2-In which techelegies it is recommed to develop a web-based chat system.

whichever you find best. Can use ASP.NET / PHP for a start.

3- Is it the spell checker available, free of cost or one has to purchase it.

There are many free ones that are good. Use http://www.google.com to search for this and the chat components.