Unless you are running a very large site and need support most people can and will run on older stuff. Until it becomes apparent that the web part is mission critical, a lot of companies will not allocate the funds to the web servers and rely on retired servers or desktop machines to fill the need.
Doug
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Crowther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 12:40 PM
Subject: [OT] RE: Preferred Platform for Tomcat5
From: Peter Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] makes me wonder how many people bother to upgrade to the latest/newest hardware :)
Fewer as the hardware becomes 'fast enough'. For example, up until 2001, the training centre I managed still used three Linux firewalls I'd built. 486SX/25, 8Mbytes, 170Mbyte HDD, each with four 10/100 ISA netcards. Each could keep up a very respectable 5Mbyte/s throughput; they were fast enough, reliable (and we had images of the HDDs and spare hardware); why upgrade? These machines once got to 14 months uptime before a UPS failure(!) took them out; other times, they were restarted once a year when the building power was tested.
- Peter
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