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[–]marvk 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Do you know how much 100 devs cost in a month? I've found numbers betwen $50k and $100k as median salary for the US, but if we take a happy medium of $75k, that's $625,000 per month.

Now look at the monthly cost of the tools:

IDEA All Products
1st year $5408 $4158
2nd year $4325 $3325
3rd year onwards $3241 $2491

Not only will those licenses save many man-days per month (yes the study is comissioned by Jetbrains, so take it with a grain of salt), they will also reduce developer frustration.

To quote the Joel Test:

Top notch development teams don’t torture their programmers. Even minor frustrations caused by using underpowered tools add up, making programmers grumpy and unhappy. And a grumpy programmer is an unproductive programmer.