PCI DSS compliance

Today's standards leave us no choice but to rethink and redefine the environment we're living in . More utilities from low-tech to high-tech are vulnerable to risk of this or that value . assessment can be done at a hard effort at the cost of operability and maneuverability , tight competition brings a low budget business to a fast unreliable solutions done with no proper documentation , so that the main picture analysis can be resolved only by truly Big players in the industry
still , powerful businesses can bring more value by giving a small start-ups a chance or at least buy them out to give a good idea "a go".
but this kind of kindheartedness is a "rare find" these days...
but , lets get down to business .. strong compliance tools from big players - can they give you some real good approach to a compliance problem resolution ?
take FoundStone for ex, can they really automatize a solution ? can a computer tell you if you compliant ? i'll rephrase - can a computer tell you that you are safe ?
yeah , right , of course it can tell you that ..do you believe it ? until next blasted shutdown , i guess...