Yep - totally agree with that.
At my place of work there was a requirement for a fairly simple call-logging application - nothing too complex, few screens, bit of reporting, but needed to be done in three weeks.
The plan was to develop this in .NET using a team out in India. As a safety net the project manager had a word with me and asked about parallel-developing the application in Oracle Application Express. Not a problem I said, and had an app which could go into production a week before required. (I'm a DBA who does bits of Apex stuff on the side, so it wasn't a straight two weeks).
Well, that was back in September. Four months later and the scheduled delivery date for the .NET application is March. Oh, and the .NET version is missing all the charting I'd put in there (which is a breeze to do in Apex).
Quite why it's taken so long to do the .NET development of such a trivial application is beyond me.
