Not surprised. You can pretty much say this as a generic statement. "<BigCorp> running outdated <some_software> to pay <BigVendor> to support old versions..."

Not surprised. You can pretty much say this as a generic statement. "<BigCorp> running outdated <some_software> to pay <BigVendor> to support old versions..." And this will apply to a lot of the Big Cos. Lot. It is painful, bureaucratic and an absolute nightmare to change things at this level. But to be fair to big companies, change is not always easy and the cost of making an "incorrect" change can be very expensive and further more expensive to rollback. I work for a very big I-bank and most of the projects I am involved with are multi-year. They take 1+ year to implement and pretty much most of the times, we hardly have solid rollback plan. Yes, I said it. It is more like "we have to put this in production after this many years and this much dollars spent. Let's roll this shit out and we will have a SWAT team ready to handle any fallouts"