> From: "David Megginson" > > On 27/02/06, Curtis L. Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you dig up a utility called "sloc" (source lines of code) it suggests > > that we are sitting on a body of code that would have cost 10's of > > millions of dollars to produce had we done it in a traditional > > commercial environment. It makes some "wild" estimates on how many > > lines of code an engineer can produce in a day, and how much an engineer > > might cost. But even with conservative estimates we have a pretty > > impressive little chunk of code here. > > Add a zero, Curt, at least from my experience. As a consultant, I've > seen more than one $100M+ system that sets out to do a lot less than > FlightGear and fails even at that. >
I knew it! Time for another rate increase. Tell me the price of those projects at least included some test hardware, documentation and deployment. Oh...and just to clarify, these were existing projects you were called in late to fix, right? ;-) Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
