Oops, should have used that darn calculator: 11,200 lines of code saving the company $1600.00.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Doug Averch <dave...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mecki: > > Let us say, for example, that you can produce 60 lines of debugged code per > hour. You cost the company $60.00 per hour including benefits. So the cost > of each line of code is $1.00. You will produce in theory (160/hrs*60) 9600 > lines of code per month for a cost of $9600.00. > > This amazing tool from U2logic comes along and you produce a extra 10 lines > of code per hour. You will produce in theory 160/hrs*70) 9670 line of code > for the same cost of 9600.00 saving the company $70.00. So the $49.00 you > pay U2logic, pays for itself in about a month in this scenario. This math > works if you productivity is only increase by one line per hour. You only > have to have 49 programming hours in this Eclipse based tool to pay for it, > or about a week and two days. > > We use this tool everyday and so does many U2 programmers throughout the > world. We know I'm more productive than I was using any of my former tools: > VI, or EMACS, or Notepad, or AE, or ED. If you are not a programmer, then > this, or any tool, as limited value. But for the rest of us and our boss, > they want us productive and our code clean. > > After being at Fortune 1000 companies and showing our software > applications, we would not dare to show anyone how we have to edit program > using the built-in editors in Unidata and Universe. Before we developed our > Eclipse based editor, every CIO or CTO or CEO or just middle management > asked us all of the time: Is this a DOS tool? Of course not we would answer > and not get the sale! > > Regards, > Doug > www.u2logic.com/tools.html > "XLr8Editor for real U2 programmers" > > > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Mecki Foerthmann <mec...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> Doug, >> How does my company save money if they have to buy and pay an annual >> license fee for an editor? >> They might as well ban going to the toilet or making and drinking coffee >> during working hours. >> I probably could be even more productive if the company would pay ME more >> and not you. >> >> I can understand that it must be frustrating for you having spent a lot of >> time developing a piece of software that nobody wants to buy. >> But threatening that we will all loose our jobs and be replaced by 25 year >> old kids with no clue if we don't convince our boss to buy your tool won't >> change that. >> Writing code is time wise the least of my daily tasks. >> And I guess like me most of us here are analysts first and coders last. >> >> Mecki > > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
