the Gov. out sources its IT, the company that gets this contract is the generally the lowest cost, and hence corners will be cut, either in hardware, software, staff training you thinking and thats an area they will of cut costs.

as H states, computers are fast and virtually infalible... the people that use that said system, are not. another good point raised by Big B above, project development times get shorter and shorter, the programmer is not renumerated for the effort anymore. thus why i really only code projects now that have my interest in the center in some way