Yep, I didn't really think the money was all that accurate, just
thought it was interesting that someone was trying to quantify it.
Like I said it also severely sells short the contributions of the
community, putting all credit into the committers (for all projects)
which is far from accurate.
-Grant
On Jul 8, 2007, at 11:56 PM, Ian Holsman wrote:
Grant Ingersoll wrote:
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3564 has some interesting metrics on
Lucene (and Solr and Nutch). Most interesting is that they
estimate it is 34 person years to develop at a cost of
approximately $1.8 million dollars (using a salary of $55k)
before you get too excited, it estimates that Apache Labs (which is
a sandbox where people try things out) is worth $2.5m http://
www.ohloh.net/projects/6271
FWIW.. I think the brand value of 'lucene' is worth at least 5-10x
(if not more) what ohloh thinks it is.
not to mention the amount of unseen development time corporates
have done around lucene, and the amount of revenue which depends on
lucene working correctly.
--Ian
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