Re: U.S. Businesses Lost Nearly 434 $ each ( was 100 billion dollars )

[mjsilva@jps.net (Mike Silva)]

raj <israelrt@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:<pf4nkt8kcuhvgar3c3oi4jep83plehj79l@4ax.com>...
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:35:25 -0400, "Marin David Condic"
> <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com> wrote:
> 
> >Just looking at the July issue of "Communications of the ACM" and notice a
> >little news-blurb that claims that US businesses lost $100 billion due to
> >defective software code in 2000. Some of the examples they cite include eBay
> >shutting down due to flawed Sun code and Nike losing $100m because of supply
> >chain management code being flawed.
> >
> 
> Let us assume that the figure is inflated by a factor of 10. ( Not
> unusual in an industry specific magazine )
> Let us divide it by the 23 million business  income tax returns filed
> in 1998 in the US that gives us 434 $.
> 
> And Ada is going to solve THAT problem ?
> What problem.....
> We spend more than that on coffee for our staff !

Hey, I've got an idea: let's assume that the figure is deflated by a
factor of 10 (to make the industry look better than it really is). 
That works out to $43,478 per business.

Next assumption...