Chump change compared to what software vendors have wrung out of DoD. :(

Look up DIMHRS for merely one example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Integrated_Military_Hum...

One of my favorite quotes in the "Issues" section is the trouble the Army was having trying to adapt their personnel policies into standard PeopleSoft actions, with a contractor developer eventually claiming to the Army "you guys (Army SMEs) just don't know how to properly manage people...".

Perhaps, but somehow I doubt that the same exact methods suitable for personnel management for civilians is always applicable to the Army.

That was by far not the only problem; the Navy actually uses PeopleSoft for its military personnel management nowadays (presumably they found developers more willing to modify PeopleSoft).

Unfortunately when governments get "big business is better" religion things tend to go pear-shaped. In my neck of the woods a change of government led to a change in procurement policies for IT. "We won't engage with any company without experience running $100 million+ projects for any government contract and they need offices in at least three countries."

This is a great way of making sure only EDS (sorry, HP), IBM, and the other usual suspects are the only ones who can do work. Not the best use of my tax dollars.

Oracle vs Oregon