States Hope Feds Will Help Replace Legacy Systems

摘要

With President-elect Barack Obama proposing to spend billions of dollars on road and bridge projects as part of his economic stimulus plan, some state CIOs are hoping that their aging IT infrastructures might also qualify for makeovers. There's a lot that needs to be updated. In an online survey of state Clos conducted last sum- mer by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, nearly two-thirds of the 29 respondents said that between 40% and 80% of their IT setups consisted of legacy systems. And many reported that they were still running code written 20 or more years ago.