"Anybody who thinks that companies can turn on a dime and fix this is wrong," he said.

Advances in information technology have helped the companies become aware of these issues earlier and fix them faster.

In 2004, the company fixed another weak point, the alternator attachment.

The survey also reported that 44 percent of the Year 2000 malfunctions to date occurred in systems the companies had fixed.

We were living on borrowed time anyway, with all the safety violations the company wouldn't fix.

So the focus was on how to fix software that companies weren't fixing.

Now those companies are fixing their sights on the flourishing sports business.

To make money with software, a company must get its product on the market first, and fix it later.

At the beginning the company were fixing machines and also planes.

A company with enormous talent and money to throw at problems can't fix the most basic issues after 10 years.