From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,69721e11a941b247 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-09 12:23:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.aset.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: Robert Spooner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Good and (relatively) cheap Ada code browsing software? Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 15:21:47 -0400 Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Message-ID: <3E9472CB.50204@psu.edu> References: <13555786.0304070801.2a028536@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nat4.arl.psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: f04n12.cac.psu.edu 1049916108 51736 128.118.40.103 (9 Apr 2003 19:21:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@f04n12.cac.psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:21:48 +0000 (UTC) To: "John R. Strohm" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en,de,fr-FR Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36029 Date: 2003-04-09T15:21:47-04:00 List-Id: 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 -- Robert L. Spooner Registered Professional Engineer Associate Research Engineer Intelligent Control Systems Department Applied Research Laboratory Phone: (814) 863-4120 The Pennsylvania State University FAX: (814) 863-7841 P. O. Box 30 State College, PA 16804-0030 rls19@psu.edu