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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by userbinator on Saturday September 02, 2017 @07:13PM (#15158753)
They want to never touch it ever. They want it to work and they want never having to ever think about it. This is perhaps the polar-opposite of what IIoT provides today, requiring constant configuration and security patches.

Indeed, I would extend that to all technology in general today --- software that seems to need constant updating and is in a state of flux, wondering what else is going to get broken with the next update, etc. Anything web-based has a particularly high churn. It's actually quite unsettling even for someone who isn't running an industrial process but just wants to use their computer to get stuff done.

The lifetime of a lot of industrial process equipment is measured in decades, and maintenance/downtime is very infrequent. Continuous reliability is more important than latest and greatest.

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Re:GE discovers that industrial IoT doesn't scale by TeMPOraL on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:23AM (#15160120)
Only moments ago, a new Windows 10 update killed my VirtualBox, forcing me to also upgrade VirtualBox to the newest available version. Fortunately the VB folks seem to care a lot about backwards compatibility - I'd be royally pissed if I had to also rebuild the guest system from scratch on a Sunday morning...

The point being, I see why constant updates are a necessity for anything Internet-connected - but it doesn't make me hate auto-updates any less.

> Continuous reliability is more important than latest and greatest.

For me, as a user and developer, this holds too, but what can one do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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