Tag: Software

On the night of his ship’s maiden and lone voyage, the skipper of the Titanic saw the top of an iceberg, swerved  to avoid it, and in doing so piloted his ship’s hull directly into the monstrous portion of the iceberg that lied unseen beneath the surface of the ocean, tearing apart the “unsinkable” ship. Had he known what lied beneath the surface, his reaction likely would have been much different and could have yielded a very different, possibly positive result.

Recently, Gartner Analyst Andy Kyte made quite a stir when he published a report that brought to the forefront just how expensive the cost of software maintenance is becoming for the IT industry.  As reported by Patrick Thibodeau in Computerworld, Kyte cited what he called IT Debt as already standing at $500 billion and fast on its way to surpassing $1 Trillion globally.

Discussions in the industry about technical debt have been focused on the IT costs involved in remediation and the potential risk to the company if applications deployed with poor structural integrity fail to perform optimally, or fail completely.

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