Legacy System

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A legacy system is any information system that resists change.

See

M. L. Brodie and M. Stonebraker. Migrating Legacy Systems: Gateways, Interfaces and the Incremental Approach. Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1995.

Legacy system characteristics: large, geriatric, outdated database technology, outdated languages, inflexible, brittle.