From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8f102ebb85cb416b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-10 16:45:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mel.connect.com.au!newshub1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au!news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au.POSTED!not-for-mail From: raj Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: U.S. Businesses Lost Nearly 434 $ each ( was 100 billion dollars ) Message-ID: References: <9if0av$hjo$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 23:45:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.164.144.2 X-Complaints-To: abuse@optushome.com.au X-Trace: news1.rdc1.nsw.optushome.com.au 994808751 203.164.144.2 (Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:45:51 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:45:51 EST Organization: @Home Network Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9754 Date: 2001-07-10T23:45:51+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:35:25 -0400, "Marin David Condic" 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 !