Re:Commercial post of the day.
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Tune
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· Score: 4, Insightful
> Five grand US, that is.
I'm not sure what you're trying to imply, but I guess you're trying to express your concern that it's too expensive. Well, it's not - IMHO. First, compare it to more or less similar products, like Intel's VTune profiler or Metroworks' products. Second, do some basic math. In many cases, software development and maintenance is basically debugging. I dare say a good coder spends (at least) two-three months a year debugging a piece of code he/she or someone else wrote - no methodoligy can change that. Good code instrumentation can't prevent bugs but helps a lot in finding them. Based on experience, I'd say it saves you a week or two per year. A good coder costs $2500-$5000 per month. This excludes management, QA and facilities. Add these and the price doubles. Therefore, it saves a company (that takes QA seriously) $1000-$5000 a year. The investment returns eventually.
$5000 is a lot of money, true. $5000 is way too much for a Linux hobbyist that payed nil for downloading his distro, but rest assure that any large commercial company will gladly pay for a couple of licenses. I guess the main concern should be if Rational can ever break even on a product that took years of development.
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> Five grand US, that is.
I'm not sure what you're trying to imply, but I guess you're trying to express your concern that it's too expensive. Well, it's not - IMHO. First, compare it to more or less similar products, like Intel's VTune profiler or Metroworks' products.
Second, do some basic math. In many cases, software development and maintenance is basically debugging. I dare say a good coder spends (at least) two-three months a year debugging a piece of code he/she or someone else wrote - no methodoligy can change that. Good code instrumentation can't prevent bugs but helps a lot in finding them. Based on experience, I'd say it saves you a week or two per year. A good coder costs $2500-$5000 per month. This excludes management, QA and facilities. Add these and the price doubles. Therefore, it saves a company (that takes QA seriously) $1000-$5000 a year. The investment returns eventually.
$5000 is a lot of money, true. $5000 is way too much for a Linux hobbyist that payed nil for downloading his distro, but rest assure that any large commercial company will gladly pay for a couple of licenses. I guess the main concern should be if Rational can ever break even on a product that took years of development.
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Programming is like sex... make one mistake and support it the rest of your life