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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Les H who wrote (66830)8/26/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: Don Lloyd  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
Les -

(...The benchmarking includes a new treatment for software that recognizes it as fixed investment, because it produces a stream of services that lasts more than a year. In fact, the Bureau of Economic Analysis estimated the average service life of software at three to five years. Currently software is recognized as a cost of production that is consumed...)

My experience is that 999 out of every 1000 lines of code ever written is never executed to an economic advantage. If they are saying that it takes 3 to 5 years to debug software by referring to its 'service life', that makes more sense. Software is an 'investment' that is never fixed. The stream of services resulting from software is normally called a sewer. -g-

Regards, Don
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