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<blockquote data-quote="Zortag" data-source="post: 3289006" data-attributes="member: 17203">This is what you get when you don't show your work.OK, I'm a programmer, I suck at math&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> . Actually, I whipped up a spreadsheet and looking at it now, I see that I hosed up at least three things. So, let me try again and I will show my work:[CODE]&nbsp; &nbsp; Function&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Project Hours&nbsp; &nbsp; Months used&nbsp; &nbsp; Rate&nbsp; &nbsp; Cost1 Senior Prgrammer Analyst&nbsp; &nbsp; 960&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 6&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 120&nbsp; &nbsp; 1152002 Programmer/Analyst&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1280&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 4&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100&nbsp; &nbsp; 1280001 Project Manager&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 480&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100&nbsp; &nbsp; 480001 DBA&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 320&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 100&nbsp; &nbsp; 320003 Rules editors&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 1440&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 3&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 50&nbsp; &nbsp; 720001 Documentation Specalist&nbsp; &nbsp; 320&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 60&nbsp; &nbsp; 192002 Testers&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 640&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 60&nbsp; &nbsp; 38400&nbsp; &nbsp; Totals&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 5440&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 452800[/CODE]I thought my first estimate looked a little low :\. It's really bad when you can no longer divide by 30.So the actual cost is around $500-650K. Selling at $30.00 per copy means between 16,000 and 24,000 unit sales for break-even. Pretty do-able.Sorry again for my bad figures...-*Andy*-</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zortag, post: 3289006, member: 17203"] [b]This is what you get when you don't show your work.[/b] OK, I'm a programmer, I suck at math :D . Actually, I whipped up a spreadsheet and looking at it now, I see that I hosed up at least three things. So, let me try again and I will show my work: [CODE] Function Project Hours Months used Rate Cost 1 Senior Prgrammer Analyst 960 6 120 115200 2 Programmer/Analyst 1280 4 100 128000 1 Project Manager 480 3 100 48000 1 DBA 320 2 100 32000 3 Rules editors 1440 3 50 72000 1 Documentation Specalist 320 2 60 19200 2 Testers 640 2 60 38400 Totals 5440 452800[/CODE] I thought my first estimate looked a little low :\. It's really bad when you can no longer divide by 30. So the actual cost is around $500-650K. Selling at $30.00 per copy means between 16,000 and 24,000 unit sales for break-even. Pretty do-able. Sorry again for my bad figures... -*Andy*- [/QUOTE]

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