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The lifetime for most software is less than two. Another thing to note is that the life expectance for a building is at least 30 years. The big difference with software is that interconneted software modules have very little tolerence for defects whereas few buildings would collapse if any one component were off by 1% from the design criteria. For the most part these aren’t even considered defects. Measured to any finite interior design software degree ever house and building had crooked walls. Another thing to note, and this comes from growing up on a construction site,is that the amount of slop/defects that are allowed in the construction process is relativly large. Software developers have to deal with ever-changing hardware and operating system environment changes.