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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 02, 2012 – Vienna, VA — Out with the old and in with the new??.?
?The United States has seen its fair share of the technological revolution.? ?such that this modern era is aptly called the Age of Information? ?Technology.?
?But how far ahead? ?are we,? ?really?? As it turns out,? ?many? ?of the most effective systems that managed our healthcare,? ?social benefits,? ?law enforcement,? ?administrative programs and even our military operations way back in the? ?1960?’?s to the late? ?1990??s,? ?are meeting their technological demise very soon.? The End-of-life cycle of a technology may sound foreboding or downright gloomy? (?remember? ?the Year? ?2000? ?crisis,? ?or? ?Y2K?)?,? ?but it does not mean we are going to throw all our aging systems out of the window.?
?We also dont expect our decades of compiled data to disappear when? ?the? ?date of retirement? ?for those systems? ?arrives.?
We can take the proactive approach of having the right resources in place while there is still time,? ?if and when a transition to newer hardware or software systems may be necessary,? ?or we can take the passive? ?(and very much more expensive?) ?stance of waiting for disaster to confront us,? ?before we move.? The choice is ours. Where the Problem Lies In the present case,? ?here are a few areas where some legacy or aging systems? (?listed in no particular? ?order?) ?are still being used: a.?
?State Financial Management Systems b.? ?Educational Support Systems c.? ?Child Welfare and Human Resources d.? ?Health Care and Insurance Software Applications e.?
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From: (legacy software) http://www.prlog.org/11788163-rescue-your-legacy-software-modernizing-corporate-and-state-legacy-systems.html