Legacy tech is the gift that keeps billing for UK's tax collector
£5.2B more thrown at the never-ending quest to modernize HMRC
Public Sector16 Apr 2025 | 14
Legacy Technology
UK stats body snoozes legacy tech overhaul as Treasury tightens purse strings
ONS acknowledges it might be a costly decision in the long run
On-Prem07 Apr 2025 | 15
British govt wants to mainline AI, but its arteries are clogged with legacy tech
Spending watchdog says digital professionals need seat at top table to ensure 'transformation'
Public Sector26 Mar 2025 | 44
$16B health dept managed finances with single Excel spreadsheet. It hasn’t gone well
It's just one of 6,000 apps that New Zealand thinks might be best tamed with ERP
Software10 Mar 2025 | 83
Legacy systems running UK's collector are taxing – in more ways than one
Updated Costs for fixing them and keeping them working up by 390%, NAO report reveals
Public Sector10 Feb 2025 | 67
Down and out: Aegon's pension pothole and TfL's mystery 'maintenance'
When is maintenance maintenance, and when is it 'we've been pwned'?
On-Prem10 Sep 2024 | 15
UK farm ministry offers £27M to support legacy systems for another three years
Controversial payment systems set for another lease of life
Public Sector16 Aug 2024 | 19
IRS has loads of legacy IT, still has no firm plans to replace it
Treasury questions the retirement of the, er, Technology Retirement Office
Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 31
Capgemini to keep the legacy lights on at HMRC for £245.5M
That's half a billion from generous taxpayers in 2.5 years
Public Sector24 May 2024 | 20
UK agriculture department slammed for paper pushing despite tech splurges
Defra is counting contractors like sheep
Public Sector26 Apr 2024 | 14
It's time to celebrate the abysmal efforts to go paperless in the NHS
Study reveals a billion spent to store paper records for 5 years as deadlines come and go
Public Sector05 Oct 2023 | 59
UK government hurt by delays in legacy tech upgrades, skills shortages
Plus: Spending watchdog slams 'counter-productive staffing cuts' in technology
On-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 19
Wordpress sells 100-year domain, hosting plan for $38K
This assumes MySQL, PHP, the web – and humanity – will be around that long
Software28 Aug 2023 | 53
What DARPA wants, DARPA gets: A non-hacky way to fix bugs in legacy binaries
When you need to patch a problem in your drone and no one's got the source
Devops18 Aug 2023 | 63
China to stop certifying fax machines, ISDN and frame relay kit
Modems and pagers soon to beep their last, ATM switches on the outer too
Networks08 Feb 2023 | 21
Biting the hand that feeds IT
