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Article: Software bugs cost big bucks. (Technology).(Research Triangle Institute reports software bugs cost $60 billion annually in economic losses)(Brief Article)
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- July 20, 2002
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It's an all-too-common outrage for computer users: Out of the blue, an infamous "fatal error" message appears, or the machine simply stops dead. The angst that such software bugs cause may never be tallied, but analysts have now estimated the financial impact of those failures. Because so much software sold to industry has errors built into it, the U.S. economy loses nearly $60 billion a year, reports the Research Triangle Institute of Research Triangle Park, N.C.
Because this estimate omits impacts on computer users at home and in the government, ...