You say to them, we understand that you have your reasons for going with another shop, but we are still interested in your business. To show good faith and demonstrate some of our expertise we are going to give you, for free, the results of this mini-audit of your site's security." The report you give them for free provides step-by-step instructions to reproduce the exploit you noticed, and whatever easy advice you feel like giving away about how they might go about fixing it.
That way you did something easy to help them out without making any decision makers lose face, and you demonstrated that you knew something the other guys didn't tell them. They'll remember.
Well...it's a little crazy, but you could use Squeak (www.squeak.org). It's the cross-platformiest thing I've ever seen. Okay, it's Smalltalk. But it's a very complete, very good Smalltalk, and it runs essentially ideintically on practically anything you can imagine. I've personally run the same identical image on various flavors of Windows, various flavors of Linux, and various flavors of MacOS. It runs on a bunch of less mass-market machines too, including some PDAs.
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You say to them, we understand that you have your reasons for going with another shop, but we are still interested in your business. To show good faith and demonstrate some of our expertise we are going to give you, for free, the results of this mini-audit of your site's security." The report you give them for free provides step-by-step instructions to reproduce the exploit you noticed, and whatever easy advice you feel like giving away about how they might go about fixing it. That way you did something easy to help them out without making any decision makers lose face, and you demonstrated that you knew something the other guys didn't tell them. They'll remember.
Well...it's a little crazy, but you could use Squeak (www.squeak.org). It's the cross-platformiest thing I've ever seen. Okay, it's Smalltalk. But it's a very complete, very good Smalltalk, and it runs essentially ideintically on practically anything you can imagine. I've personally run the same identical image on various flavors of Windows, various flavors of Linux, and various flavors of MacOS. It runs on a bunch of less mass-market machines too, including some PDAs.