LANSING – Hewlett Packard met a judge-imposed deadline of 5 p.m. Friday to turn over the source code for information technology projects it had been pursuing for the Department of State, a department spokesperson said Monday.
A week ago, a Kent Circuit judge ordered HP Enterprise Services to turn over the source code for the ExpressSOS website, the Penske application and current data migration code, saying it was clear the code belonged to the state. The department cancelled HP’s contract for the Business Application Modernization project after years of delays and problems.
The department warned that without the state having the source code, the entire online system, which thousands of residents use to renew license plates and conduct other business, was at risk of crashing.
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