On 03/23/2015 11:33 PM, Mario Obejas wrote:
Another class of uses is software that is meant to be in the field for
a *long* lifetime. All of our space based software is designed to be
on mission for decades. Closer to home, there are plenty of
installations that are not interconnected but still must last for a
decade or more and still have a warranty/maintenance facility that
tests and mitigates bug reports from the field. I can tell you my last
employer still has VAX/VMS software *development*, and I doubt we are
unique.
Nothing runs like VMS...
I understand a prior employer (two ago for me) moved off of VMS/AXP a
couple years ago due to Oracle being EOLed (it was their ERP platform -
SCT Banner shop.)
Also in that shop, but decomissioned a decade ago, was a Xerox two-color
laser printer that was around 70ppm and from the early 1990s. We had two
color units for it; one with purple ink for our letterhead and one with
red for W-2s (we bought the perforated paper and printed everything
in-house) which had their own little carts with a roller-on-rails
system. I think the printer itself spanned about eight floor tiles and
around two tiles deep. Across the room was a controller for it, covering
four to six tiles, with a Wyse terminal atop. Adjacent was a 386 system
running software from BARR System that translated from ASCII to EBCDIC
for the printer.
Not properly third-party but...I currently work for a certain statistics
software firm in a hosting arm. We have one customer running a version
of our software that turned 10 years old last year. Two years ago I was
assigned to add a product to the install and it didn't go well. After a
few days of fighting with it we finally told the customer, "we are
unable to make it work and there will be no further patches for it so
the only answer is to upgrade." Their contract does include upgrade rights.
Regards,
Danielle
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