One of the biggest problems with information technology is when a government agency or business installs a huge IT system and then later on needs to upgrade it and the technology and hardware is so old and the new next generation of technology is now available. Often it is very hard to justify the expenditure of upgrading the entire system to the latest technology even though the latest technology may blow the doors off of the current system.
As the rapid advancing technology and information systems grows at a rapid pace due to the innovation and research and development sometimes it makes sense to wait to implement the next generation of IT systems in the future. Of course an organization or business cannot wait forever and eventually it has to decide on a system and implement it.
Unfortunately, once you decide on an information technology system and the corresponding hardware and then design it and finally implement a system, there is already a new generation of technology that is better. Of course the organization or business now wants the new technology and therefore implements changes in its current system to upgrade.
Indeed, when you upgrade an old system you need to use patchware. Patchware is software that allows the software from the old system to interface with software from the new system, consider it a bridge between the old technology and the new technology. Each time Patchware is implemented more things can go wrong in the computer code and you have introduced more people into the program and loose lips can sink ships. Meaning, that this information can get in the hands of hackers who can get into your information technology system and hurt its integrity or put in malicious code.
Information technology philosophy is very important to consider before spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement a system, which is to provide more efficiency and stability to your government agency or corporation, because if it is done incorrectly, then the whole system could crash along with your entire company or agency. Please consider this in 2006.
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