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	January 19, 2006 Government IT Follows Software Trends, But Legacy Issues Continue To Slow Progress by Gene Leganza with Bradford J. Holmes, Will McEnroe

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Executive Summary

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Government Works On IT Basics And Keeps Up With Software Trends
• Government Organizations Are Still Saddled With Major Legacy Applications

WHAT IT MEANS

• The Next Five Years Will Bring A Leap From Green Screens To SOA
• Related Research Documents

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