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- From: rms@miles.com (Rob Schultz)
- Subject: US v. the World in SE (Statistics)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.211654.15244@miles.com>
- Organization: Miles Inc., Diagnostics Division, Elkhart, IN
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:16:54 GMT
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- All statistics quoted here are taken from the class notes
- of Capers Jones' Applied Software Measurement seminar.
-
- More of my input for the software war between the USA and the
- rest of the world. Unofficial estimates of the number of software
- developers and managers as of roughly 1991:
-
- Country Developers Managers Total
-
- USA 1,693,200 253,980 1,947,180
- USSR 1,445,000 216,750 1,661,750
- India 1,252,500 187,875 1,440,375
- China 990,000 148,500 1,138,500
- Japan 850,000 127,500 977,500
- Germany 505,600 75,840 581,440
- Indonesia 460,000 69,000 529,000
- Brazil 441,000 66,150 507,150
- England 370,550 55,575 426,075
- Italy 365,400 54,810 420,210
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- Software Productivity Rankings overall (1991)
-
- Country Delivered Feature points per Staff Month
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- Japan 2.00
- France 1.65
- USA 1.55
- England 1.47
- Germany 1.45
- Switzerland 1.40
- South Korea 1.37
- Taiwan 1.35
- Canada 1.33
- Norway 1.30
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- Software Quality Rankings overall (1991)
-
- Country Delivered defects per Feature Point
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- Japan 0.32
- Canada 0.64
- USA 0.75
- Germany 0.82
- England 0.83
- France 0.86
- Taiwan 0.89
- South Korea 0.91
- India 0.97
- Thailand 1.03
-
- I would have to say that if the USA hasn't already lost the
- software industry to offshore producers, we are on the fast
- track for doing so, unless we make some major changes, and
- quickly.
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