Trivia: If GnuCash were a commercial program...

[Mike Evans]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:20:33 +0200
Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> ... it is estimated it would have costed about 90 person years to develop :)
> 
> At least that's what the program sloccount claims. This is obviously not 
> scientific calculation, just for fun. The program is primarily meant to 
> calculate the effective source lines of code (sloc) in a project. I have 
> ran it on GnuCash, here's the full summary for those interested:
> 
> Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
> ansic:       260622 (77.04%)
> lisp:         42674 (12.61%)
> sh:           16955 (5.01%)
> python:        6823 (2.02%)
> cpp:           6387 (1.89%)
> perl:          4835 (1.43%)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC)                = 338,296
> Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 90.53 (1,086.36)
>   (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
> Schedule Estimate, Years (Months)                         = 2.97 (35.61)
>   (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
> Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule)  = 30.50
> Total Estimated Cost to Develop                           = $ 12,229,349
>   (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
> SLOCCount, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 David A. Wheeler
> SLOCCount is Open Source Software/Free Software, licensed under the GNU GPL.
> SLOCCount comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, and you are welcome to
> redistribute it under certain conditions as specified by the GNU GPL 
> license;
> see the documentation for details.
> Please credit this data as "generated using David A. Wheeler's 'SLOCCount'."
> 
> Have fun !
> 
> Geert
> _______________________________________________

Hi all

I found this cost estimate the other day which has a similar cost estimate.

http://www.ohloh.net/p/gnucash/estimated_cost

Mike E