Oracle Exec Strikes Out At 'Patch' Mentality

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net has an article up discussing comments by Oracle's Chief Security Officer railing against the culture of patching that exists in the software industry." From the article: "Things are so bad in the software business that it has become 'a national security issue,' with regulation of the industry currently on the agenda, she said. 'I did an informal poll recently of chief security officers on the CSO Council, and a lot of them said they really thought the industry should be regulated,' she said, referring to the security think tank."

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Nope, sorry

[hummassa]

The "bridge" equivalent of consumers' expectation for software would be: a bridge made out of cardboard, with a lot of lights, a coffee-making machine each 100 yards, seven entrances and eighteen exits -- and ways to go from each to each, that can be reconstructed in 15 minutes to 3 hours if it falls, and nobody will mind if it falls every other day. A plain old bridge is 1000x - 100000x more expensive to build, would take one year to get ready, and probably will see maintenance only ten to twenty years after it's ready... It's possible to build it, but no one wants it, so it's not _viable_ to build it.

Anyway, the better software design tools are those that are integrated deeply with the coding phase... But no one wants to use those (say Lisp)