I don't think it was that clear-cut. Having had experience with low quality home-grown software, Hayden was a proponent of buying rather than building. Rather

I don't think it was that clear-cut. Having had experience with low quality home-grown software, Hayden was a proponent of buying rather than building. Rather than struggle to hire good developers on government salaries, he took advantage of contracting to bring in well paid people to do the job well. Only, guess what...sometimes you don't manage to get what you pay for.