Greetings from "
Digital Modernisation: Unlocking success beyond legacy systems" at the Australian Computer Society.
Ian McDermott – Partner, Digital & Strategic Transformation, Synergy Group is addressing the issue of what to do about old government software. There comes a point where it is not technically possible to keep maintaining old software let alone paying to patch it up. This brings to mind a recent session at Canberra Innovation Network on selling to government.
Ian mentioned the difficulty of finding COBOL programmers. I only ever wrote one line of COBOL, beginning my career just as it was being phased out. But that was more than 40 years ago and much COBOL is still to be replaced.
Ian pointed out that simply replacing a "legacy" system is not that easy. Government wants new functions added while maintaining the old system.
Ian proposed a digital modernization special interest group.
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