On 10/20/2014 07:20 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:58:01 -0400, shawn wilson said:
Bad idea. I'm betting we'd find half of gov web sites down due to not being able to reboot and issues in old coldfusion and IIS and the like (and needing to fix static links and testing etc).
You say that like it's a bad thing....
It's a dollar thing -- show me a substantial return on the investment and I'll back it all the way. Notice that nowhere in the litany do the terms "LAMP" or "Linux" show up. Adobe and Microsoft would *love* the increased revenue from updates that would have to be applied to all those old servers. And what about those sites that were made using Front Page? Talk about a nightmare. A costly one. "A billion here, a billion there, soon you are talking about real money." -- misattributed to the late Senator Everett Dirkson (1896-1969, R-Illinois 1951-69)