Initially, funding for Web site management was perceived to be a barrier by virtually all of the team members. However, after the initial workshops, the teams found this to be non-existent. As one program person stated, “I don’t think money really even becomes an issue with us for this thing, because it’s not going to require anything new. We’re not spending any money really of any significant amount on software or hardware or anything else. It’s really just a matter of people doing their job slightly differently and being more efficient at it.”

As another program person said, “I think that the benefits definitely should outweigh any kind of costs if you look at it in the long term. I think that it’s going to decrease the amount of staff time that’s needed to be putting these publications out to the Web site.” By the end of the Testbed project, funding was revealed as more of a perceived barrier than an actual one.