Actually, the letter from the EOP to the NSA and CREW doesn't say when they
'deployed' it, but says they've been using it since Jan 2009. 
http://bit.ly/70se4L The product was announced to be replaced in April 2009,
and as I recall the roll out of the new product came a couple of months later.

The simple answer might be because they had it, had installed it, had
trained staff to use it, and the licenses were still active.  Like many
other organizations, a conscious decision has to be made whether to upgrade
to a newer system and part of that process may involve evaluation of
alternatives.

If you recall, January 2009 was a time where there were a "number of things
going on" at the White House besides being concerned about what e-mail
management product (that's right NOT "archiving product") they would be
using, however, they should be commended for making a decision to implement
the use of ANY PRODUCT at the beginning of a new Administration to avoid
claims of a lack of action at all.

Knowing this isn't the first and only organization in the US to wait to
upgrade software when a new application comes out and EOLs the prior
product, I can say that its' far from surprising.

Larry
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