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How does one spend $1 billion on software and fail?

Epic failure creating sofware is common enough that there's a Wiki page commemorating it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_failed_and_overbudget_...

My own state managed to piss away around $200 million just on a website to sign people up for health care. It's hard to believe something that insane, but Oracle was involved so perhaps it's plausible.



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