Ironically, a large amount of the waste comes from the effort to avoid waste. Weeks of development time have been spent dealing with how to keep our memory loa

Ironically, a large amount of the waste comes from the effort to avoid waste. Weeks of development time have been spent dealing with how to keep our memory load under 1Gb, since that's how much RAM we have. Granted, 4GB of RAM would have been more than enough, but all that developer time saved the tax payer $20. On the reverse side, I've seen half a million spent on hardware for a project where the sys-admin was making $35k.