That must be the case, right? Software being as diverse as it is, probably a creative individual could sit down and name 700 types of software application, but

That must be the case, right? Software being as diverse as it is, probably a creative individual could sit down and name 700 types of software application, but more likely they were numerous variations of CRUD, shuffling information in and out of databases, managing who could access what information, and presenting it in various ways. Clearly there is something very wrong at the planning level of these big, failing, IT projects. Perhaps the temptation to begin by writing down all the commonalities between different software systems and seeing how one big system could do everything is part of the problem. But it's also easy to see how it is tempting to do so.