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Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making

  • From: Christian Kuhtz
  • Date: Mon Nov 07 11:27:26 2005 
On Nov 7, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Hannigan, Martin wrote:




On Monday 07 Nov 2005 3:42 pm, Hannigan, Martin wrote:



It's an argument for vendor diversity.



No it is an argument for code base diversity (or better
software engineering).

Vendor diversity doesn't necessarily give you this, and you
can get this with
one vendor.



How so? Haven't we recently seen an across the board bug in
multiple version of $vendor code?




And that's evidence of what other than nobody is willing to pay for
what it takes to get better code out of $vendor?



Code can be built better. It just isn't always economical to do so.