One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion 242
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from the but-what's-the-cost-of-preventing-it? dept.
from the but-what's-the-cost-of-preventing-it? dept.
blognoggle writes "Roger Sessions, a noted author and expert on complexity, developed a model for calculating the total global cost of IT failure. Roger describes his approach in a white paper titled The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity. He concludes that IT failure costs the global economy a staggering $6.2 trillion per year."
Simple solution, put it into the cloud (Score:5, Funny)
and it will magically work the way it's supposed to work
They should have tried (Score:5, Funny)
turning it off and on again.
A sad day. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hang on a second... (Score:3, Funny)
This just in, Employee Time Off costs the world $60+ Trillion a year, analyst suggests 16 hour work days.
Re:Something's wrong with adblock (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, Tanenbaum.
Perhaps wikipedia doesn't save Sessions info between uses?
Re:Weird statistic... (Score:1, Funny)
None, of course! Stupid cost centers, with those geeks always inflating their budgets for shiny new tech toys...
Oh Yeah? (Score:3, Funny)
Pathetic (Score:5, Funny)
Mgmt blames the devs, and devs blame the mgmt, and both get modded "insightful".
It's like watching hot naked babes wrestling in the mud, except that it's the exact opposite.
Re:Can't argue with the math (Score:3, Funny)
"I expected someone would have checked the math before posting this kind of story on Slashdot"
Seriously? This story had some math, even if it was made up. That's way ahead of the usual.