Maintenance woes, inefficiency and the inability to respond to changing markets are all excellent reasons for replacing legacy technology sooner rather than later. But there's another motivator that may be even more urgent, "Finding people to work on legacy IT is becoming more difficult every day," says Michael Macrie, senior vice president and CIO at Land O'Lakes. "The reality is that numerous baby boomers are retiring, and finding young people who want to invest their time, energy and effort in legacy technology is extremely difficult. Yet many companies around the country need to get this stuff done. This gap will be an issue for some time." That's a worry for IT leaders at large, well-established companies. "Many IT organizations have a demographic time bomb," says Matt Bishop, global managing principal for CIO Advisory Services at KPMG. "They're still going to have that older technology when the people who understand it walk out the door. So the push to replace legacy technology for business reasons can be a saving grace, helping with a problem that's coming in the future."
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机译：维护问题，效率低下以及无法应对不断变化的市场都是尽早更换旧技术的绝佳原因。但是，还有另外一个动机可能更为紧迫：“寻找人们从事遗留IT的工作每天变得越来越困难，” Land O'Lakes的高级副总裁兼CIO Michael Macrie说。 “现实是，许多婴儿潮一代正在退休，找到想要在传统技术上投入时间，精力和精力的年轻人非常困难。然而，全国各地的许多公司仍需要完成这项工作。发行了一段时间。”这对于大型，信誉卓著的公司的IT领导者来说是一个担忧。毕马威（KPMG）CIO咨询服务全球董事总经理Matt Bishop说：“许多IT组织都有人口统计炸弹。” “当了解它的人走出大门时，他们仍将拥有较旧的技术。因此，出于商业原因而推动替换旧技术的做法可以节省开支，从而有助于解决将来出现的问题。”
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