"Pieter" <pi**********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"Brad Wood" <bradley|.wood|@ndsu|.edu> wrote in message
news:eA**************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... Here's an interesting article I recently read (should be worth
registering to get the full article):
http://www.sdmagazine.com/documents/...10a/0510a.html
Here's a list of some very notorious bugs:
http://infotech.fanshawec.on.ca/gsan...FamousBugs.htm
Here's a recent example I'm somewhat familiar with:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/13/fbi.software/
Lastly, there's netscape. It will probably be somewhat difficult to find
a single description of why netscape faded away, but it may prove
worthwhile (I've heard they had too bloated a team and spent too long
trying to make it darn near perfect before it caved in on itself).
Thanks a lot! really helpful!
The only source for these is my memory and conversations with friends,
however IIRC:-
The Washington state ferry system built two computer systems, both of which
failed
New Zealand purchased two separate but related computer systems from IBM for
the police, both of which failed
British Columbia's worker injury insurance system built a system which
failed (they later built one that worked)
British Columbia's auto insurance system built a system which partly
worked.
There are not a lot of records of failure out there, are there?
"Success has many fathers. Failure is a lonely orphan".