January 19, 2006

Government IT Follows Software Trends, But Legacy Issues Continue To Slow Progress

by Gene Leganza

with Bradford J. Holmes, Will McEnroe

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Forrester's recent survey of IT execs responsible for enterprise software and services shows that integration, security, and standards-based technology implementation are the major software issues for government organizations in 2006. Forrester's data also shows that government IT leaders are very interested in approaches to custom development such as agile processes and application life-cycle management, and that their attitudes toward open source and SOA are very similar to those of their private sector counterparts. The biggest differentiator between government and nongovernment software organizations? The albatross of legacy mainframe COBOL apps and how government software execs plan to deal with them.

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