Re: AS/400 Gasping For Air ??

["Dennis Lovelady" <dennis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Simon:

>And you get what you pay for :).  I understand there are 65 million LOC in
SLIC and OS/400.  Reliability
>doesn't come cheap.  I've said this before: Any project has 3 attributes --
CHEAP, FAST, GOOD -- you get to
>choose two.

OK.  This is interesting.  The AS/400 has been around for 12 years, right?
Technically, much (most?) of SLIC and OS/400 has been written or rewritten
MUCH more recently than that, but let's use that number for the moment.  Now,
with 65,000,000 LOC, and at a rate of 2000 LOC per man year for 12 years, we
have..... 2708 workers (excluding management, marketing, etc.) involved in
the development of the AS/400 SLIC and OS/400?  Over a 12-year period?  Is it
safe to say that 50% of that has been (re)written since V3's inception?  What
was that, maybe four years ago? (I don't remember.)  Running the same numbers
(32,5000,000 LOC over 4 years), we have 4062 actual workers involved in that
development over a 4-year period?  Can these numbers be correct?  Hasn't
there been a layoff or two in that time frame?  This is intriguing to me.

Dennis
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