Detroit Technology Chief Describes Obsolete Computers
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Detroit’s municipal computer systems are “beyond fundamentally broken” and holding back the city’s recovery, its chief information officer testified.
The antiquated desktop computers can take 10 minutes to start up, and basic software is “generations behind,” Beth Niblock, the official, told a federal judge today as the city started its second week of a trial over a plan to reduce its $18 billion debt burden.