[THIN] Re: Hybrid question?

And are there still dinosaurs and cavemen where you work Neil? ; )

"Braebaum, Neil" <Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Well the 10 year thing 
may not be so ridiculous.

All the Winterms I deployed in the field, dating back to 98, are the original 
items (a small number may have been replaced - like-for-like by engineers but 
all are the same model).

Up until very recently, I had some of the original server hardware in use. The 
main reason for decommissioning some of it (and I'm talking about 200 Mhz 
Pentium Pro server hardware) is simply management costs, and datacentre real 
estate.

But the hardware still works and supports very similar loads to the original 
implementation. It's only when you increase OS or application demands that 
things become obsolete. But the investment my company made in the initial end 
user hardware has not needed replacement. Nor will it likely do, before the 
implementation is removed. And that won't be far off 10 years.

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