Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic
by arethuza on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @12:09PM
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Actually, if you have thousands or tens or thousands of desktops and hundreds of applications something as simple as upgrading Windows (or even Office) becomes quite a serious undertaking - so unless there is a really good reason for doing so it's understandable that organization don't upgrade just for the sake of the latest shiny bit of tech.
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Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic
by cookiecaper on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @02:36PM
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This is largely a symptom of Windows itself, not a symptom of needing to upgrade something. It'd be much simpler to push updates to all users if you use a self-configured apt repository than it is to push updates to Windows clients. Not so nightmarey at all to upgrade systems with good package managers, actually.
Re:The State of Version Control: an Infographic
by GFischer on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @07:25PM
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When I was a sysadmin, I could push my updates via Group Policy. It's not that bad. (I'm now in development so I don't know the Microsoft current recommended method).
The cost of an upgrade is the daunting part IMO. We need to buy a bazillion CALs (licenses) if we want to switch to Windows 2008 server-side, for example.