Re: Calcuating Loss

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 16:30:46 BST, Jos Osborne <Jos () meltemi co uk>  said:
> > How about when Micro$oft releases a bundled patch (cough cough MS04-011) to
> > fix several bugs and security holes (supposedly to help "minimize loss" from
> > these bugs and worms) only to find out that the patch itself has broken just
> > as many services as it fixed, taking down one's server for a few hours,
> > causing yet... more loss!  ;-)
>
> Grrrr - that little pressie from M$ cost us a whole morning...

"You can chalk up a morning's worth of semi-scheduled losses now, or chalk up
even more losses when you have to install patches *after* cleaning the worm off".

"You can pay me $500, or you can pay the hospital $4,000 to have your kneecaps
fixed".

Draw your own conclusions about any family resemblance between those two
statements. :)

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