{"id":209,"date":"2006-11-16T10:27:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/pentaho-tops-44-million-in-open-source-code\/"},"modified":"2006-11-16T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-16T17:27:42","slug":"pentaho-tops-44-million-in-open-source-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/11\/16\/pentaho-tops-44-million-in-open-source-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentaho tops 4.4 Million USD in open source code"},"content":{"rendered":"

Startups are interesting: Some days you love your job, other days you want to throw yourself out the window.  Yesterday I hated my job, for a variety of reasons.  One of the things that cheers me up when I’m in the midst of some tough stuff is looking at the big picture.<\/p>\n

To date, Pentaho has built more than 313,981 lines of open source code.  It’s an estimated 81 person years.  At 55,000 USD \/ year for a developer that roughly equates to about 4,400,000 USD of “code” built and released under a business friendly, OSI approved, open source license (MPL). <\/p>\n

WOW!<\/p>\n

We put the vast majority of our stuff into the open source project (more than 80%); it’s a complete product in and of itself and that’s something I personally am proud of<\/b>.  I’ve added the “OHLOH” badge for Pentaho to the upper right hand corner so there’s a ticker on this page to keep track of the breadth, size, and investment in the open source edition of Pentaho:<\/p>\n

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Incidentally, the metrics are calculated by a very cool upstart ohloh.<\/a>  They slurp data from source control systems and display cool metrics about projects, like ours.<\/a>  Check them out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Startups are interesting: Some days you love your job, other days you want to throw yourself out the window.  Yesterday I hated my job, for a variety of reasons.  One of the things that cheers me up when I’m in the midst of some tough stuff is looking at the big picture. To date, Pentaho […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}