>In short, it has to do with the cost of maintaining and supporting code that is unique, often in a language for which it becomes difficult to find programmers

>In short, it has to do with the cost of maintaining and supporting code that is unique, often in a language for which it becomes difficult to find programmers and support skills, and the accelerating pace of business change (which often causes major re-writes of custom code). How is this possible? What ever happened to standardization? Why is it that the taxpayer always gets f*Ed.?