SPUG: CPAN code worth $500M
Michael R. Wolf
MichaelRWolf at att.net
Sun Aug 8 14:07:25 CDT 2004
Michael R. Wolf wrote:
> CPAN == 5,000 person-years of work!!!!
>
> Back-of-the-email-envelope-calculation....
>
> $100K/yr/programmer * 5,000 programmer-yrs == $500,000,000
Not too far off.... The actual "study"
(http://www.etla.org/stdout/code/cpan_sloccount.html) quotes:
5,012 programmer-years
$677M
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Michael R. Wolf
All mammals learn by playing!
MichaelRWolf at att.net
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