when to not replace old technology with new

At the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, we are doing a study of what factors influence the decision to replace or not replace old information technology/products with new information technology/products.

• If you were involved with such a technology replacement situation, we
• would like to include you in our study. We are especially interested in
• responses from people who evaluated a replacement but DECIDED AGAINST.

Your participation will contribute to the progress of information technology! In exchange for your participation, we would be happy to give you information about our findings- to help you in future decision making.

We are interested in all technology areas and are especially interested in the areas of DATABASES, IMAGING, and CLIENT-SERVER technology. For example, we are looking for companies who considered replacement of a non-relational database with a relational database. Or, replaced older applications with new generation (e.g. client-server) applications.

If you can help, please provide us a regular (not just email) postal address. To contact us, send email to
(Asst. Professor) Rajan Srikanth at srikanth_at_garnet.berkeley.edu or call him at 510-643-9994 or call (MBA Student) Rehan Syed at 415-312-8420. If we are not in when you call, please leave a message indicating when you can be called back.

Thanks very much for your interest!