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Re: Server retired after 18 years and ten months

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> Fun story for the electronics of course, but that's obviously a 
> terrible, terrible idea. Holds invoices? Real time account enquiries? 
> Sounds like business critical processes to me, and to have them on such 
> an supported environment is just foolish.
> 
> They later say it took a lot of work to move the reports to a new 
> machine. The work would still have been worth it, but even if they'd 
> done something as simple as dd the drive to some virtual machine and 
> then run the same system on non-EOL hardware, they'd -still- be better 
> off.
> 
> Clear example of penny wise, pound foolish.

... but they earn full geek cred of course.  

Gosh, imagine cqlling your company only to learn they are storing
 your info on a pentium 2. Yikes.

It occurs to me the cost in electricity alone for the hardware
 would be far greater than newer machines.

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Server retired after 18 years and ten months Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-15 18:41 +0000
  Re: Server retired after 18 years and ten months Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2016-01-15 22:28 +0000
    Re: Server retired after 18 years and ten months RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2016-01-16 16:02 +0400

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