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The programmer cost estimate is sort of lower than
the real world prices :) because the 3 contract
programmers would know nothing about Ts2k and
they need time to learn what the program does and
then reproduce the bugs before they can be fixed.
IF the cost is $70k per programmer per yr x 3
- it also implies it will take 1 yr to get the
fixes to the market :)
- if more porgrammers are hired, the less productive
per programmer, a well-known fact in software
development.
AND, I do not believe there are 10k registered
active TS2k users at all.
so wait for at least a year, if not longer :)
for a patch ...
and the old saying in software industry,
"every new programmer adding new code to a program
will introduce new bugs, more new bugs."
-Lawrence
--- Wayne Mathews <wayne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Omega not having issued sp6 to fix the (last)
> remaining bugs in TS2000
> must be a result of putting all their programmers on
> to TS Pro. And not
> having enough money to hire any extra ones to
> correct the remaining bug
> issues in TS2000.
>
> Let see, 3 programmers at $70,000 per year is
> $210,000 (no health or
> other benefits as they would be contract workers for
> this one time and
> last event). There must be at least 10,000 (20,000?)
> copies of TS2000 in
> use. That would be a cost of $21 per copy. (3
> programmers should be able
> to fix the bugs in TS2000 in 6 months).
>
> I, for one, an so tied of the crippled form of
> TS2000 that I am willing
> to pay $20 (even $100) for a sp6 that fixes the
> remaining identified
> bugs. I know, service packages are free because they
> give only what was
> suppose to be there in the first place but if this
> is the only way to
> get sp6 I am willing to pay for it.
>
> I know this is a bad precedent, but this should be
> the last service pack
> for TS2000 and this looks like the only way it will
> happen.
>
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