As federal CIO Vivek Kundra assesses the need to streamline government IT, he may want to look at the lack of progress in legacy modernization. A new study, based on a survey of 166 senior IT managers in US federal agencies, estimates that agencies spend almost half of the annual federal IT budget, $35.7 billion, maintaining and supporting legacy applications. In addition, nearly half (47%) of all existing IT applications are based on legacy technology in need of modernization.
Agencies’ systems are aging, but only one out of three is doing something about it
Four out of five government executives say this is dangerous, and that mission-critical government capabilities could be at risk if agencies do not modernize legacy applications
Madeleine Brookes on 02 May 10"A survey of Chinese scientists who use Google much more than local search engines. China's roughly 380 million internet users. 78% of the scientists who responded to Nature's survey say that international collaborations would be affected to the same degree. Scientists in the 25-34 year age range were most likely to say that losing Google would significantly hamper their research."
