Re: Good and (relatively) cheap Ada code browsing software?

[Robert Spooner <rls19@psu.edu>]

John R. Strohm wrote:

> 
> Some obvious marketing questions come to mind.
> 
> 1.  How much would you be willing to spend out of your own personal pocket
> for a single-user license?
> 
> 2.  Figuring engineer costs conservatively at $250,000/man-year (fully
> burdened), you are looking at $125/man-hour.  How many hours of work do you
> expect this package to save you?
> 

As far as question two goes, you can show it saves time and therefore 
money - so long as you don't have the problems that:

1. money is available for salaries but not for buying things that 
management expects to get for free - "free software" - such as 
compilers, tools, etc.
2. management takes the view that you're on salary and any overtime that 
you need to put in to meet their arbitrary deadlines without having the 
proper tools is free.

Bob
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