> On Monday 07 Nov 2005 3:42 pm, Hannigan, Martin wrote: > > > > It's an argument for vendor diversity. > > No it is an argument for code base diversity (or better > software engineering). > > Vendor diversity doesn't necessarily give you this, and you > can get this with > one vendor.
How so? Haven't we recently seen an across the board bug in multiple version of $vendor code? > > Vendor diversity might be a good idea, but for other reasons. Sure. There are more reasons than one to do it. I was specifically pointing out that code diversity is a good one - and not forgetting associated cost and economic impacts as mentioned in a later followup. -M<