> The interesting thing is that Kaiser probably bought the software at the lowest possible price, choosing the crappiest company to develop it. More likely, t

> The interesting thing is that Kaiser probably bought the software at the lowest possible price, choosing the crappiest company to develop it. More likely, the software dates back to 1984, and they've been trying to upgrade it for 10 years, but since it now has 25 years worth of cruft in it, it will still take another 5-7 years to completely migrate all their internal and external partners to the new system. See the comment from Jason Schulz on the original article. He's nailed it.