Re: COCOMO & Indians

Hi, Jonah and Ibrar.

> This is the wrong place to do it.

Seggest other place.

>> 2) We are captivated by price of Indians,
>> we listened much about low quality of code, written by Indians,
>> we are fearing, that American company will resale implementation to Indian subcontractor
>> (i.e. real developers will be Indians anyway).
> Did you really just say that?

My letters are perlustrated by bank security command (team).

> it seems that you haven't got the hint yet

Already done. Current results is the following:
A1) cost in US is above cost in India in 3 time (i.e. coefficient is 3),
coefficient was obtained as expert estimation independently (of digits below).
A2) avarage in India is nearly 50 000$, avarage in US is nearly 150 000$.
Much dispersion (range) of prices (dispersion for India is bigger).
Both country informs, that cost in Europe is above cost in US.
A3) Contributor from Pg informs, that cost is 50 000 euro, i.e. 75 000$.

We interpret in following way:
B1) We can pack into 75 000, if we will seach developers enough long time,
we can get developers just now, if we pay twice (i.e. 75*2=150)
B2) therefore cost in India is increased twice, i.e. actual cost is 25 000
B3) We have no reasons to believe US, probably real developers will be in India

>Do we really need this kind of discussion here?

Bosses do not like dispersion.
Besides this, 50 000 itself seems very much for India to be math expectation.

Dmitry (SQL50, HTML60)