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

From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Subject: Re: U.S. Businesses Lost Nearly 434 $ each ( was 100 billion dollars )
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:30:51 -0500
Date: 2001-07-10T20:30:51-05:00	[thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: pf4nkt8kcuhvgar3c3oi4jep83plehj79l@4ax.com

According to my arithmetic $100,000,000,000 / 23,000,000 = $4347.83

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From: "raj" <israelrt@optushome.com.au>
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Sent: July 10, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: U.S. Businesses Lost Nearly 434 $ each ( was 100 billion dollars )


> 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 !
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