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Article: Software bugs cost billions, study says. (Tech Loss Control).
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- National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
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- July 29, 2002
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A U.S. Department of Commerce study has concluded that software bugs, or errors, cost the U.S. economy an estimated $59.5 billion annually, but not everyone agrees that the blame lies entirely with software vendors.
According to the study--commissioned by the Gaithersburg, Md.-based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a part of DOC--at the national level, more than half the costs of such errors are borne by software users, with the remainder falling on software developers and vendors.
Released in June, the study was funded by NIST and conducted by the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina.
The study--"The Economic ...