$40,000 is ridiculously cheap when you realise how little effort can go in to building, say, a master-data management software, which licenses for many hundreds

$40,000 is ridiculously cheap when you realise how little effort can go in to building, say, a master-data management software, which licenses for many hundreds of thousands per year. Or, consider the average salary of a programmer with enough operating systems knowledge to write this. But then, supply and demand is a strange thing.