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Patterns of legacy displacement — Part two

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Turning the Power Off to the Legacy System

Clients often don't have a defined criteria for turning the power off to old systems. One of the common things that can prevent systems being turned off, or can be a barrier to change is that the people using the system don't have any responsibility in terms of paying for the system. We work for a large client where the ta part of the business who were using the system, they were the last people left on this legacy system. It was costing tens of millions a year to run this thing. And so it made it very challenging to get any migration done there at all. The organization as a whole stood to save very considerable amounts of money. But that that part of thebusiness just

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