Re: Vulnerability/Penetration Testing Tools

[Yvan Boily <yboily () gmail com>]

I don't want to work as a programmer for you.  2080 hours a year
leaves no time for vacation, and that would suck.

On 1/18/06, Madison, Marc <mmadison () fnni com> wrote:
> Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
>
> > Something to keep in mind however - many people make that comparison,
> and don't calculate the *TOTAL* cost.
>
> > If your developer is getting paid $60K/year, the *encumbered* cost
> (benefits, office, etc) is close to twice
> > that.  And if he's writing an in-house BidiBLAh, that's time he's *not*
> writing stuff you *can't* buy
> > off-the-shelf.
> > As a result, it breaks out as:
>
> > BidiBLAH:         $10,000
>
> > scripting clss:             $350
> > 6 man-weeks time: $15,000
>
> > OK? Got that?  Suddenly doesn't look like such a good deal, does it?
> Maybe you *should* just buy
> > BidiBLAH, and have that guy coding that custom interface between two
> in-house systems instead....
>
> > (And don't say "I only pay my developer $30K, so he can take 2
> man-months to do it" - the kind of
> > developer you can >keep for $30K is probably going to take a lot more
> than twice as long as the $60K
> > developer.....)
>
>
> I understand your point about TCO, even though you don't make a very
> good case for it.  As for BidiBLAH, maybe you should look at the product
> before speaking about it!  If you have used this product then please
> give me your insight as to what you think and why.  Really if your
> currently using this product I want to know what you think!
>
> Now for the Math, and why your TCO argument wasn't so good,
>
> Developer $60K/year divided by the adopted 2080 man hours year (this is
> the average hours work, 40 hour week, 5 days, etc...) = $28.85/hourly,
> so.....
>
>
> BidiBLAH:                       $10,000
> Scripting class:                $350
>
> 6 man-weeks time:               $6924.00
>
>
> Like you said, "many people make that comparison, and don't calculate
> the *TOTAL* cost".
>
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