Bruce Brown, a spokesman for BugNet, proclaimed: "We have tabulated the bug fix records of the major PC software vendors as usual, but we are not going to give out an award for 1998 because, frankly, the PC software industry's performance has been...
Frost & Sullivan has warned that it is unrealistic to expect this rate to be maintained, stating it is symptomatic of an immature market, despite many vendors predicting brisk growth for the long term.
UK software companies have failed to adopt US standards for recording sales, despite the high-profile accounting scandals which have plagued tech firms based in that market. This is one of the conclusions of Ernst & Young's annual software...
The survey of 102 UK businesses by law firm Tarlo Lyons found customers are becoming more demanding of their IT suppliers and are more likely to enter into litigation to resolve project failures. Peter Moody, partner in dispute resolution at Tarlo...
Microsoft is less affected by this trend than other software vendors, though. The share price of software companies drops noticeably when security flaws are found in their products, according a recent study.
The majority of software companies now do offshore software development but rising prices and managing far-flung teams is posing new challenges, a study has found. Consulting company Sand Hill Group last year surveyed executives from about 50...