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Aaron G. Cass, Barbara Staudt Lerner, Stanley M. S...
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Anselmo Lastra, Steven Molnar, Marc Olano, Yulan W...
A legacy system is an operational, large-scale software system that is maintained beyond its first generation of programmers. It typically represents a massive economic investmen...
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