Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Web services/SOA - The right way Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:16:16 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <813beeec-0e6a-45fa-b9a7-64525c9abb29@googlegroups.com> <7094c1c8-5d46-4189-ab85-043762152c13@googlegroups.com> <4d33e183-a7f2-4f86-bb6e-62201d42cc83@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 7SK6yTFfqwlIPNBLl3l7Qg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:35420 On 8/19/2016 1:48 PM, Eric Douglas wrote: > They don't expect everyone to be able to run current software for > various reasons, so from Java to Windows you can pay for support past > the "end of life". > > If you can run the latest, everyone should remain current on Java. > Windows is a different story. I run 8.1 at work, 10 at home. I've > heard 10 has a lot of issues on a managed domain. We still run XP > because software would cost thousands of dollars to run on anything > newer. Many are tied to the version their app server supports. And upgrading app server can sometimes be a project and then both app server and Java becomes a bit old. Arne