And money is not the critical constraint: the groups $35 million per year budget
I think you may have gotten your numbers confused. They get $35m for a group of 260 people to write the software, not half a billion.
I think you may have gotten your numbers confused. They get $35m for a group of 260 people to write the software, not half a billion.
I spent it, incidentally, supervising an outsourcing team which can't read the language the project is written in -- I kid you not, I actually had to say "Thank you for your inquiry about unknown red text under the login screen. The red text you have circled is not an error message. It is a weather report. The text is red because the forecast is potentially lethal. Closing as 'By Design'."