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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (543213)	10/14/2013 9:07:34 AM
From: greenspirit	2 Recommendations Recommended By Bill Thehammer Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793537

What's incredible is this is America for goodness sake! We have the best web site developers in the world available! I could personally find, put under contract and begin working on a massive website capable of doing all this within two months. And the website would be complete in 18. The talent we have available is amazing. This is what we do BEST! This isn't 1996 when google launched it's website on a server in someones closet at college. Americans know how to build incredible websites, far more complex than a government health care website, yet we squandered the dollars,squandered the resources and failed. Why? Lack of leadership!

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (543213)	10/14/2013 7:29:49 PM
From: sm1th	Respond to of 793537

One expert helpfully suggests it might take two years to get the system working properly. Sounds about right to me. Actually sounds a bit optimistic. They had 3 years to interpret a massive, badly written law and implement a new type of solution. I am currently working on a much smaller state govt project to mostly replace existing functionality. It is a 5 year project with over a year devoted to defining the functionality. In the private sector it would be done much faster, but for a govt project, that is a fairly aggressive schedule. Nobody who understands large scale SW development would have believed that the exchanges were possible on schedule.