I have some internal knowledge of what happened to HealthCare.gov as I was employed as a major developer of the original proprietary content management system t

I have some internal knowledge of what happened to HealthCare.gov as I was employed as a major developer of the original proprietary content management system they we were using circa 2009-2010. The original Content Management System was Percussion CM System also known as Rhythmyx. You can confirm this by googling: "percussion cm system healthcare.gov" (the links will be broken obviously because they don't want to be associated). One of the things that made Percussion good at scaling was that it was "decoupled". It was sort of like a massively complex GitHub Jekyll in which the web pages were statically published thus Percussion would not be as liable for performance. Now here comes the OSS irony. I remember distinctly that there was a huge political push to replace Percussion with Drupal. That's right. Instead of static pages they wanted a dynamic OSS CMS (not to be confused with the healthcare CMS entity). Now I don't know what happened after 2010 because I went off to go start my own company but I do remember we warned them of using a dynamic frontend for such a high profile site. Anyway I have no real opinion on whether or not healthcare.gov should be OSS but thought that information might be useful for some.