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alipang on Oct 15, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brazilian government to ditch Microsoft in favour ...

Well, one problem is when the client is a government. Healthcare.gov can not exactly be described as rocket science either (even less so I'd imagine), but ended up costing a nice little sum of money, while also not even working.

vkou on Oct 15, 2013 [–]

No, interfacing with half of the stone-age machinery that Healthcare.gov has to is not rocket science. The closer analogy would be pulling teeth.

I'd also daresay that GMail is only possible thanks to Google infrastructure - which was not built over 20% time.

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