States hope feds will help rebuild legacy systems along with roads
ComputerWorld
With President-elect Barack Obama proposing to spend billions of dollars on road, bridge and infrastructure projects as part of his economic stimulus plan, some state CIOs are hoping that their aging IT systems -- some so old that the source code is missing -- can get a similar makeover. In an online survey of state CIOs by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, nearly two-thirds of the 29 respondents said that anywhere from 40 percent to 80 percent of their IT infrastructures consisted of legacy systems.