I would think for any closed operating system platform, that we should drop support in sync with the vendor. If Microsoft has stopped supporting W2K, then this seems like a no-brainer to me. So do we. For open source operating systems, then the same thing applies, assuming there's a governing body or community for that particular OS.
Perhaps this is really a question that should be address by the OpenAFS elders? ( I miss you guys... :-P ) If we don't have a clear policy on determining when to drop a platform, it costs us dearly, as supporting these "dead" platforms prevents us from modernizing the environment like this. On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <[email protected]>wrote: > > Windows 2000 is now more than ten years old. If your organization would > be > > significantly impacted by removing support for Windows 2000, please let > us > > know. My personal opinion is that it is time to declare Windows 2000 > > unsupported. > > I would have to look at the official dates, but my recollection > is that Microsoft ended the last support for W2K earlier this > year. Any further support required an "extended support" > (i.e. an expensive) contract. Those organizations for which > W2K (and OpenAFS for W2K) are absolutely required > should already be budgeting (and contracting) for expensive > T&M support. OpenAFS for W2K should be declared dead. > > Gary > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info >
