<div dir="ltr">All politics aside, what I've read are typical project killers:<div><br></div><div><ul><li>changing requirements</li><li>management by committee, across different organizations</li><li>immovable deadlines</li>

</ul><div>They had no chance to ship successfully. </div></div><div><br></div><div>Eric</div><div><br></div><div>PS I strongly oppose Obamacare...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">

<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


  
    
  
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    <div>More like the idiot contractors screwed
      up.<br>
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      Probably some senator's nephew owns the "consulting firm", didn't
      know what they were doing, or understanding of the expected load
      on their application.  Probably didn't know what a load-balancer
      was, load testing, or understand the concept of scalability.<br>
      <br>
      More perfect example of governmental waste.  Withhold their
      payment for botching the job as contract failure.  Now
      corporations supporting linux have to get involved to show it was
      just a debauchery of wasted tax dollars and morons milking the
      system.<br>
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      -mb<br>
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      On 10/31/2013 07:57 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Tux  sweeps in to save the day!</div>
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        <div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Derek
          Trotter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com" target="_blank">expat.arizonan@gmail.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font face="Comic
                Sans MS">Says here<br>
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                <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/31/top-tech-experts-from-google-red-hat-oracle-sent-to-save-obamacare/" target="_blank">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/31/top-tech-experts-from-google-red-hat-oracle-sent-to-save-obamacare/</a><br>


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                that RedHat is now involved in fixing the Obamacare
                website.  Somehow I can't help but think that bringing
                in the odd penguin will fix this fustercluck.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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"I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual."

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