anthony.sambat...@nih.gov (Sambataro, Anthony [E] , NIH/NBS) writes: > I've read that the Obamacare software contains 500 million lines of > code, how can that be?
I thought more like 5m LOC ... but may come to reach $400M-$500M (but that includes everything not just writing code, but also full roll-out and operation) ... but would be like $100/LOC (if operations included). common metric of less than 100LOC/person/day, 500M LOCS is more than 5million worker days or well over 20,000 worker years. for comparison ... a recent IBM problem Pennsylvania Kills An IBM Contract That's 3 Years Late And $60 Million Over Budget http://www.businessinsider.com/pennsylvania-kills-ibm-project-2013-8 from above: It said the computer system built so far was unreliable and full of bugs (had "a higher number of software defects than industry norms.") Plus, it blamed IBM's revolving-door workforce. The initial project manager and the top executive left in 2009 and IBM preceded to have 638 people work on the system, rotating most of them off in less than a year. ... and ... A year ago, laid-off IBM employees told us that the company's ongoing layoffs are creating a lot of churn in large projects like these and hurting the company. They named a handful of cases where other big clients pulled the plug on IBM contracts. ... snip ... referenced article: http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-laid-off-employee-says-company-is-blowing-it-2012-4 including Disney @ $100m/annum, Texas @ $863m, and Indiana 10yr, $1B and comparison with other large program (with large millions of LOC) What If Obamacare Was A Fighter Jet? http://my.firedoglake.com/jpsottile/2013/10/24/what-if-obamacare-was-a-fighter-jet/ will eventually be nearly two decades ... the article does raise issue about long-term, broken procurement process throughout the federal gov (however, especially epidemic in DOD where they keep putting off date when DOD has to comply with mandatory financial audit). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
