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SE Radio 559: Ross Anderson on Software Obsolescence

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How to Track a Bill of Material

At the moment you have to hire people and what's going to happen is that the larger software companies will write a whole bunch of Python scripts or whatever which will automate some of this grant work. People who study software engineering economics have known since the 1970s since pioneering work by Barry Bohm that about 90% of the total cost of owning software is some incidents. This was the case even in the old days when people wrote their own software and ran it on their own mainframes right because somebody like a bank would pass some programmers to write the missilesYou know software to support ATMs when those come along. Then over the next 20 years they keep on wanting more features in their ATMs so

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