By the spring of 2000, Swedish government officials were pretty nervous. The delivery date on a major computer application was already a year late, causing a highly publicized delay in the start of the nation's new money-market pension system. With the legal deadline approaching for the system's launch, the government gave PPM - the agency in charge - six months to develop a fallback application, just in case the main commercial program hit another snag. PPM hired an independent consultant, and GlobeCom AB, to design the back-up application for Sweden's Premium Pension System, with the simple directive that they provide something usable very quickly. Given the time crunch, the team built the application (known as Pluto) with Perl, using an Oracle database.
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