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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (21476)	11/16/1998 5:37:00 PM
From: Eugene Goodman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Charles The WSJ had some interesting numbers. I'd like to know what you think. "A...prodictive programmer can write 30000 lines of code per year... " This is about 15 lines per hour. If a programmer makes $100000 per year [probably low when all costs are included ] this comes to $3/line- or more realistically $ 3 to 5/line. Is this realistic? Is it for debugged code, ready for publication? NT5.0 has over 40 mm lines of code. MSFT has 4000 programmers working on it. How do you integrate the work of the programmers. One integrator for each 4 or 5 programmers? Note that NT 5.0 cost $120 to 200 mm. This probably doesn't include marketing costs, the bean counters, the law dept, management overhead or the cost of options. $200 mm is not much when you consider their sales. If the same cost were applicable to W98, the cost would be only a couple of dollars a copy. As a guess how about $10 per. I invite you to correct any or all of the above numbers. Stick to programming- you will never make it as a poet. Gene