The company I work for has the best of both worlds. They go out and buy a $500,000 piece of Enterprise Software*, forgo the expensive contractors and dump the setup and configuration on 2 or 3 in-house developers, a project manager (who is usually an outside contractor who happens to be friends with an executive -- a budget locust, if you will) and an IT manager. After about a year the esteemed project manager moves on to the next project, the manager in charge gets promoted, the software is blamed for the lack of results and a new $500,000 purchase is made.

*For those that haven't used the stuff, Enterprise Software doesn't actually work out of the box. It's much like a do-it-yourself plane kit with lots of manuals on FAA regulations, a glossy guide full of pictures of planes "other customers" have built and a box full of parts (with a few random parts missing) but no actual assembly instructions.

I believe it actually slowed the ISA bus down to be compatible with a slower standard and the CPU was clocked at a fixed multiplier so, as a side-effect, it too slowed.
 
Anyway, I just enjoyed it 'cause it was an actual button on my PC. I wired the PC speaker through it to allow me to enable/disable to bleeper if it got out of control. (I changed the turbo setting using the keyboard lock.)

But I shot 'em all.

Damn! How did you know I was going to knck over that 7-Eleven on Martin Landau Boulevard!?