Posted on Thursday, September 18th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Home-Grown Apps Invite Headaches, IDC Says
PC World
The growing risk of defects from increasingly complex in-house software is costing companies dearly, according to new research from IDC. Seven in 10 companies said their code base is more complex than in the last two years, and 72 percent said debugging software was “problematic”. The cost of fixing this costs medium to large firms on average between $5 million and $22 million every year, IDC estimates. In-house software is becoming more complex as a result of multicore processing, Web 2.0 and service oriented architectures (SOA), IDC said, and the complexity is also driving up the original costs of development.
