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This doesn't make a ton of sense to me -- UNLESS the software vendors
are charging ongoing maintenance for those old installations.
It doesn't make much sense for me regardless.
Rob alluded to one case where a vendor's announcement that they would no
longer support out of service releases met with applause from their user
community. This is only one of a number of cases I have encountered where a
vendor finally bit the bullet to find that their users had been praying for
that day.
I cannot understand why anybody would risk basing their business on an
obsolete version of an operating system that has no vendor support and
(because it is proprietary at its core) cannot be "fixed" by third parties
in the event of a problem. I don't care if it is Windows or i5/OS (or I
guess OS/400 if it is that old) - I just don't see the risk/benefit equation
making sense.
It does seem to me that a significant part of the problem lies not so much
with the end users, but with software vendors who charge ridiculous fees for
simply allowing a customer to get up-to-date. I include IBM in this
category - in fact I think they are probably the worst of the lot and
probably their own worst enemies. Just about every OS release consumes more
resource - their insistence on making it economically impractical for people
to move to a new release must have cost them millions in lost hardware
sales.
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com
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