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MSNBC is running a decent article on their site that examines a number of recent, publicity-grabbing software disasters and explains that it's most often the people, not the software, that are at fault. Of course, this isn't exactly a new idea.

Such disasters are often blamed on bad software, but the cause is rarely bad programming. As systems grow more complicated, failures instead have far less technical explanations: bad management, communication or training.

�In 90 percent of the cases, it�s because the implementer did a bad job, training was bad, the whole project was poorly done,� said Joshua Greenbaum, principal analyst at Enterprise Applications Consulting in Berkeley. �At which point, you have a real garbage in, garbage out problem.�