Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
If you can gain for example 10% productivity by using a $500 tool, and your hourly rate is $100, you need 500 hours to recover that investment.
That's roughly 12 weeks, or 3 months.
I get 50 hours, or one week.
The name and size of the company selling the tool however does matter, in fact it matters a lot.
And that is bad news for IntelliJ as it's a small company and competing with the likes of Microsoft and IBM for companies' vanishingly small budget for development tools.
Not much competition from Microsoft in this particular market.
[ November 28, 2006: Message edited by: Ernest Friedman-Hill ]