In the early 2000s I worked for a big government contract company that had a contract with the CDC to make a website with.. wait for it... forms. Yes it was ba

In the early 2000s I worked for a big government contract company that had a contract with the CDC to make a website with.. wait for it... forms. Yes it was basically big complex, single page forms that wrote data into a... wait for it. Oracle database. These were the days of J2EE. They had about 30 programmers on the case. There were the architects, a lead architect, and many programmers. The contract was for about 100 million USD. Their interview process was: "can you write computer code?.. OK great, you are hired. Come on in." I should have known something may be amiss.. The dev server took about 5 minutes to start on a souped up computer. That and several static variables hiding up high in an uber base class. These variables were of course designed to hold per session data. I tried submitting a form twice simultaneously. This crashed the server. I left that and years later the project was I believe cancelled. I wonder why the government does't just use a forms as a service thing?