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CNET News: Oracle Exec Hits Out at ‘Patch’ Mentality

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 30, 2006

“Oracle’s security chief says the software industry is so
riddled with buggy product makers that ‘you wouldn’t get on a plane
built by software developers.’

“Chief Security Officer Mary Ann Davidson has hit out at an
industry in which ‘most software people are not trained to think in
terms of safety, security and reliability.’ Instead, they are
wedded to a culture of ‘patch, patch, patch,’ at a cost to
businesses of $59 billion, she said…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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