Re: "When it's political, technology cannot do anything."
Re: "800 or so total programs " - I dont think they are living in 2017."
Having worked at a council in the past, there are a lot of unique applications - things for managing traffic lights (think it was SCATS...), traffic and crowd modelling, engineering packages, GIS, library systems, facilities management systems across council buildings ranging from animal welfare to gyms and swimming pools - the list is almost endless.
These aren't systems used by a lot of people, but a lot of them won't work in Citrix due to requiring specific hardware or licencing dongles. And most of the systems used were required to meet regulatory requirements so even if you tried to move to another application, your choices were limited to a handful of supported applications and most didn't have developers willing to support multiple platforms unless they had the customer base to justify it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
