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No, I was referring to mainframes. Back in the day, they cost a fortune to set up and replacing them is a high risk - low value for many CEO's. In Québec, the
by whynotmaybe 3y ago
No, I was referring to mainframes.
Back in the day, they cost a fortune to set up and replacing them is a high risk - low value for many CEO's.
In Québec, the SAAQ (provincial DIV) decided to get rid of the mainframe by replacing it with SAP and with the amount of data they had, the migration took them a month of downtime.
Then they completely mismanaged the startup of the new system and a lot of people complained.
The CEO was fired.
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/head-of-saaq-loses-his-job-eric-ducharme-to-take-over-1.6344217 https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/head-of-saaq-loses-his-job-eric-...
I'm sure that Windows Server will gradually be replaced by containerized app running in some cloud but windows desktop will take a long time to be replaced, especially because of office.