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They should have just called the article "Old Computers in use at companies where managment is to stupid to see how much money they are wasting and how much ris
by JPKab 14y ago
They should have just called the article "Old Computers in use at companies where managment is to stupid to see how much money they are wasting and how much risk they are introducing"
The chemical company in Texas is a prime example: "They use it because its a known entity."
Wow.
- blablabla123 14y ago> "They use it because its a known entity." I would assume that this is the single reason outdated systems continue to exist. People who are using the old systems and feel confident with them. If you want, you can find for any legacy system a person who would be willing to take the risk to replace it. But that would also mean losing control for the existing maintainers...
- angersock 14y agoOne wonders if IBM currently has a still-active support contract for that box.
- brokenparser 14y agoMake that two.
- jdechko 14y agoAgreed, although as time goes on, the costs associated with upgrading increase dramatically as the machine becomes increasingly likely to fail. I wonder what the risk/time graph looks like for that compared to say, the MTBF of a modern hard drive.