On Thu, September 13, 2012 6:52 am, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:04:09PM -0700, Manfred Moser wrote:
>> I think that the cost is only so high because companies keep waiting >> until >> it is too painful. If you constantly keep upgrading a bit here and there >> and stay up to date with your operating systems, runtime environments, >> browsers and client site frameworks and so on you would actually be able >> to save a LOT of money in the long run. But you would have to constantly >> invest rather than waiting with no investment until things fall apart >> and >> then being forced to large costly upgrades. > > I think this happens because the money you spend on upgrading and the > money you save because of it are in two different pots. If you look > at the way budgeting works, you might find that the current behavior > makes sense -- assuming that you accept that the way budgeting works, > makes sense. :-/ Most of the time budgeting is also short sighted and without leadership.. so I dont accept that it makes sense .. sorry ;-) >> So it is mostly short sighted management and an absence of real >> technology >> leadership in organizations causing this problem imho. And forcing the >> pain to stay on old stuff higher (like Oracle is doing with deprecating >> Java 6 earlier) is actually a good thing. >> >> imho Maven 2 should have long been deprecated and removed from the >> downloads pages.. > > Tell the distro.s. Gentoo still has Maven 3 keyworded on all arches, > and Gentoo is one of the bleeding-edge, daily-updating distro.s. I'll > be using M3 for production work the day after they take the ~amd64 > keyword off it. Dont use the package supplied by the distro then. Use the upstream release. manfred --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
