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some famous ones such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Quest Software. About $5 billion
has been invested by Insight.
Insight Venture Partners is not a software company itself but has provided the
seed money for many software startups, of which 21 later became large enough to
have IPOs. It is of social and historical interest that the enormous wealth the soft-
ware industry has created needed venture funding to get started. Without venture
funds from groups such as Insight Venture Partners, many of the companies cited
in this topic would not have gotten started.
The ISBSG
The ISBSG is an interesting niche company that began as a loose cooperative of
metrics organizations in five countries. It was founded by Terry Wright in 1994,
and three years later Peter Hill joined as President and registered the company
in Melbourne, Australia. The ISBSG is organized as a nonprofit group and it
provides a very useful service to the software community.
The ISBSG collects benchmark data for software productivity and quality.
Today, the volume of available benchmarks exceeds 6,000 projects, and hundreds
more come in on an annual basis. The ISBSG benchmarks cover a variety of soft-
ware types from a variety of industries. More than 20 countries have provided
benchmark data to date.
All of the benchmarks in the ISBSG repository use functional metrics. Both
International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) function points and COSMIC
function points are represented. Some of the other functional metrics such as
NESMA and FISMA are also included.
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