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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:55:00PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > Let's insert some fact in this discussion:
> 
> OK.
> 
> > Basically you charge a small(-ish) company about $25k for any
> > reasonable license. This is about as much as we spent for Software in
> > the last seven years (we do own a few Windows and Office licenses).

The historical expense for software
in your company has absolutely no relation to the cost-effectiveness of
a new purchase as far as I can see.

But it is interesting that you can hire a full time "really good" 
programmer for total cost of $50K/year. Salaries are dropping.




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