case study $2$ examined the evolution of a statewide information systems network that serve florida state government agencies in $10$ regional sites and connects these to the data center in tallahassee $.$ up to the early $1990$s the network was based on the use of the property system network architecture from IBM and a mainframe at the data center that houses all of the applications. over the course of $30$ months,dms built a statewide TCP$/$IP network,began offering internet service to local and state agencies and created a suite of internet applications that will ultimately move personnel,accounting and billing systems online in $2007,$ the DMS network went through another major overhaul and was renamed