I thought we established last week that Neil lives in the North of
england. That they've progressed past water-mills and cotton factories
is impressive enough.:)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Kenzig http://Kenzig.com [mailto:jkenzig@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 October 2005 15:26
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [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.