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Cost of owning and maintaining software in the 1980’s was twice as expensive as developing the software
In 1990’s, the cost of ownership and maintenance increased by 30% over the 1980’s.
50% of surveyed projects were operational, but were NOT considered successful (1995 statistics)
The average software project overshoots its schedule by half
75% of all large software products delivered to the customer are failures that are either not used at all, or do not meet the customer’s requirements
