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California DMV’s 1990s Database Modernization: A $40 Million Project Abandoned

California's DMV spent years trying to replace 1960s-era databases with a new relational system, but unresolved performance problems, weak stage controls, contracting failures, and optimistic oversight turned modernization into a costly abandonment.

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