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Companies Keeping Systems Longer Than Ever

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the penny-pinching-till-lincoln-cries dept.

Ant writes to tell us ComputerWorld is reporting that based on a study done by the Yakee Group Research company out of Boston companies are leveraging the durability and reliability of computers to extend the lifespan of desktops, laptops, and servers. From the article: "IT's life-cycle demands have raised the bar for vendors. "There's more pressure on [the vendors] to make the boxes last a longer period of time."

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  1. running a small server... by FooAtWFU · · Score: 1, Troll
    I run a relatively lightly used academic server. We used to run it off a Sun Ultra 10, 440 megahertz. A year or two ago we ended up replacing it with a new Linux box for a variety of reasons, including a hard-to-diagnose hardware failure (which now it appears may be limited to the hard drives, so we may yet recycle the box, heh) and the fact that not many people are familiar specifically with Solaris...

    So we bought a new middling-low-end server from IBM, 1U, Opteron... The manager of the site basically asked me for a machine which would last them a decade, if possible. Which may just happen. Sure, we may replace a disk between now and then, but we should have more than enough power to run everything we want and more between now and then.

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  2. Re:Why upgrade? by baldass_newbie · · Score: 0, Troll

    It would have to be a reason like "We have to upgrade to XP otherwise the company will explode killing all executive management". Then he'd probably sign a check.

    Don't be so sure.

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