| Aikens, P., A. Muntz, and R. Richards, "DoD Legacy Systems; Reverse Engineering Data Requirements," Comm. ACM, 37, No. 5, pp. 2641, May 1994. |
....to focus on building MLS operating systems on which single level applications could be layered. During the same period, commercial information technology products had become much more affordable and much more capable. However, the cost of migrating legacy systems to newer technology was high [Aike94] Business and government were reluctant to change these fragile systems upon which their survival depended and found it difficult to modernize their business processes to become more efficient and productive. These legacy systems came to be known as stovepipes, reflecting their architecture, ....
Aikens, P., A. Muntz, and R. Richards, "DoD Legacy Systems; Reverse Engineering Data Requirements," Comm. ACM, 37, No. 5, pp. 2641, May 1994.
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