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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by killjoywashere on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:31AM (#19152268)
> Windows 95 in a VM

Puh-lease! I log into a VMS server every day to access an application that saw it's last update in 1995. Which wasn't even deployed until 2001. It will be replaced this year with a Win95 era application, complete with acres of giant grey buttons, served over a Citrix link from VMs running Server 2008. Bleeding edge, boys, bleeding edge.

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Re:Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud mar... by fsloth on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:24AM (#19152496)
Statistically a new software project - especially if done by a team with no common history of past successes - is risky.

So, if business values stability over risk, I understand very well if they select very very very very long term support option rather than to create the product from scratch.

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