Bruce MacDonald

"Replacing outdated software essential to everything from payroll to class registration at the Minnesota State school system has cost $48 million more than initially approved and is four years behind schedule. …

"The software is replacing a 30-year-old system that uses an obsolete computer language. It had to go, said Jacquelyn Bailey, vice chancellor for information technology at Minnesota State."

By Erin Adler
The Minnesota Star Tribune
https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-states-new-software-system-costs-50-million-more-than-initially-approved/601577233?utm_source=gift

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Mar 10 at 11:31amWeb
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@rationaldoge
I was part of a similar upgrade at a Tx University from cobol to oracle/java. In the end, it required significantly more money and strangely enough more people to run the system. The users hated it because there were many more steps per process, I.T. hated it because they lost programming flexibility, but gosh darn it..we got new.