On 10/20/2014 07:20 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:58:01 -0400, shawn wilson said: > >> Bad idea. I'm betting we'd find half of gov web sites down due to not being >> able to reboot and issues in old coldfusion and IIS and the like (and >> needing to fix static links and testing etc). > > You say that like it's a bad thing....
It's a dollar thing -- show me a substantial return on the investment and I'll back it all the way. Notice that nowhere in the litany do the terms "LAMP" or "Linux" show up. Adobe and Microsoft would *love* the increased revenue from updates that would have to be applied to all those old servers. And what about those sites that were made using Front Page? Talk about a nightmare. A costly one. "A billion here, a billion there, soon you are talking about real money." -- misattributed to the late Senator Everett Dirkson (1896-1969, R-Illinois 1951-69)