[SC-L] A banner year for software bugs | Tech News on ZDNet

[Kenneth Van Wyk]

So here's a lovely statistic for the software community to hang its  
hat on:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6124541.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed

Among other things, the article says, "Atlanta-based ISS, which is  
being acquired by IBM, predicts there will be a 41 percent increase  
in confirmed security faults in software compared with 2005. That  
year, in its own turn, saw a 37 percent rise over 2004."

Of course, the real losers in this are the software users, who have  
to deal with the never ending onslaught of bugs and patches from  
their vendors.  We've just _got_ to do better, IMHO, and automating  
the patch process is not the answer.

Cheers,

Ken
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Kenneth R. van Wyk
KRvW Associates, LLC
http://www.KRvW.com




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