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You just don't read about it[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#12)
by Anonymous User on Tue Mar 21, 2006 at 06:24:52 PM PDT

You don't hear about it because the big software has (in the IRS case) one customer and a team of people supporting it.

It isn't that the bugs aren't there, it's just that there's a team of people working 24-7-365 to keep it running.

The same is true in software running at banks, insurance companies, everywhere. Stuff written in-house has in-house support teams to keep it limping along. Stuff they bought does most of the time, too - or a big hefty contract with the vendor to do the same.

As someone who works for a mult-billion dollar company in the IS department, let me tell you - the bugs are there. We just keep it limping along.

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