> will we start to hear horror stories of the mess behind the scenes of healthcare.gov, after real professionals get to see the sausage factory in operation? I

> will we start to hear horror stories of the mess behind the scenes of healthcare.gov, after real professionals get to see the sausage factory in operation? I strongly suspect - guarantee, even - that there are parts of Google and Oracle (...along with everywhere else) where the codebases are god-awful messes, or 'sausage factories'. It comes with the territory. If anything does come out it will probably be after the fact, and anonymized in some way (so, on TheDailyWTF). True professionals tend not to go around telling everyone about how awful the previous contractor was - that's why they're professionals.