Software Bugs Cost Billions, Study Says
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 DOCat 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.
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