Everytime there's a "government app costs $x million" story, someone always chimes in with "Lol I could build that in PHP for $2." It seems a fair percentage o

Everytime there's a "government app costs $x million" story, someone always chimes in with "Lol I could build that in PHP for $2." It seems a fair percentage of HN'ers have not experienced the sheer Khafkaesque deadlock that is a large corp or govt department. The cost is not in the dev effort, quite often there is actually a very small team of devs doing the "real" work. Outsourcing the dev work is not going to help because it is the massive bureaucratic pyramid which is crushing the devs, and that pyramid can't be outsourced. This is not a technology problem. It's an enterprise management problem.