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Cost of Octave
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From: |
John W. Eaton |
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Cost of Octave |
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Date: |
Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:13:17 -0400 |
On 21-Jul-2006, Javier Arantegui wrote:
| Hello,
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| If we wanted to write Octave, how much would it cost us? According to
| http://www.ohloh.net, we would need $700,516 and 13 man years:
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| http://www.ohloh.net/opensource/software/octave
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| That's a lot of money and effort!
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| To put the data in perspective, the estimated cost of Maxima is $1,089,624
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| the cost of Gnuplot is $1,170,857:
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| http://www.ohloh.net/compare/detail?projects=maxima+gnuplot+octave
I think these numbers are quite low.
jwe