Trivia: If GnuCash were a commercial program...

[Ted Creedon]

If it were for profit, triple the estimate for marketing, distribution,
documentation, sales & support.

Ted

(Tektronix Retired Senior Project Manager)

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Mike Evans <mikee at saxicola.co.uk> wrote:

> 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
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