The benefits of open source development
Your benefit of using Wicket is about $2.5 million, according to the statistics I found while scanning the logs of ##wicket (freenode.net irc). These statistics have been provided by Almaw:
Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 66,028 Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 16.28 (195.40) (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05)) Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 1.55 (18.56) (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38)) Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 10.53 Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 2,199,663 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40). Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 9,781 Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 2.19 (26.31) (Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05)) Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 0.72 (8.66) (Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38)) Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 3.04 Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 296,172 (average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).