Legacy

The word legacy has been used loosely in the organisation. With the notion of the derogatory connotation that the word "old" holds, I attempted to look for a better synonym for the description of the state of a system. This lead me to the realisatin that the word "legacy" was not one of the synonym.

As Legacy has also been used in the organisation as a reference to old system, I decided to correct this misconcception and search in the online dictionary for the meaning of the word "Legacy".

Legacy: Noun

1 : a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest
2 : something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past

Since legacy is not a verb, it cannot be used to describe a system. The phrase legacy system is inappropriate. Unless we are refering that the system is a legacy. Base on the definition, the closest meaning would be index 2. But this again is not appropriate to the context since the system does not transmit from one person to anoher, from one place to another, from one thing to another. That is, unless time is define as a thing. A question brings me to another question:

"Can we transmit an item from one time to another?"