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From: Al Christians <alc@PublicPropertySoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: is ada dead?
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 09:14:52 -0700
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Jerry Petrey wrote:
> 
> This is certainly not nonsense.  But don't feel bad.  Many people in 
> the industry are unable to understand the true cost of developing 
> software and only look at the up-front coding costs, tool costs, etc.  > That is one of the main reasons most software is over budget and of 
> poor quality or not even ever delivered.
> 

Suppose you are an electrician and you hear about a new kind of 
wirecutter.  There are studies that say this wirecutter improves
average productivity by 2%.  If you do the math, you can figure that
this is worth $2,000 to you over the expected 5 year life of the
wirecutters.  You go to the store and see $1,295 wirecutter on sale
next to all the others at $11.  Which pair do you buy?  Which toolmaker
has biggest market share and good cash flow to finance ways to improve
their product?

For $1,284 most can think up a reason why they are not average. 


Al