Re: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making

[Christian Kuhtz <kuhtzch () corp earthlink net>]

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.