Re: VS.NET is too EXPENSIVE. Developers switching rapidly from it.

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From: Ton Geurts (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 04:41:06 -0800

     ----- GreyCloud wrote: -----
     
> Let's say the typical developer costs around $120,000 per year (which
> includes salary, benefits, equipment, training, and all other employee
> costs).
     
     Guffaw!! Lets say that your employer just dumps the over priced developer
     and takes his requirements to India. Then he'd be able to lower that down
     to $2 per day. And it IS happening inside corporate America.
     
But the paycheck is not the biggest part of that $120.000, though I wish it was <G>. My boss also has to rent a building, turn on the heating at winter, the airco at summer, buy PC's, pay the electricity, my ergonomic chair and desk, etc... THAT is all part of the $120.000. Those are all workplace related costs per employee.
Do you think my boss really cares about the $2000 for a good tool? Especially as VS.NET 2003 has raised my productivity to the level that I have time to
- read all the nonsense that you guys and galls can come up with,
- even respond to it.

Ciao,
Ton.