Pretty mind boggling. How does one spend $1 billion on software and fail? I guess this is a somewhat misleading accounting statement based around maintaining the existing software orgs of the merged companies, not building new software.<p>It makes me wonder though, with an unlimited budget and willingness to pay a lot, what could one achieve in one year? If you offered 200k base, 100k signing, and 1 mil bonus for completion of goals within 1 year, that should give you access to pretty much all the top tier programmers in the world. Hire 50 of those guys and you&#x27;re only at 65 mil. Maybe you need a really incredible guy running it so you offer him a 30 mil bonus. Now you let those guys attack the problem and it&#x27;s hard to imagine they couldn&#x27;t fix things up at DHL within 1 year.<p>Any known examples of orgs trying this approach?