On 1/7/22 14:02, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2022-01-07 10:47, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
So yes, paying customers really like old stuff :-)
Or you just did not sell it well enough.
Maintenance costs for an aging car rise to the point where getting a new one is more economical. At this very price-parity point, one would surely pick the one that looks nicer.
This is true for the average consumer, but not for data centers. Very often they run into a sitution, where updating all server would be much more expensive then an exorbitant price for maintaining the old code base. Often it is the sheer mass on virtual machines and the missing knowledge about the running workload which prevents them from updating.
Only one of my customers insists on running a single SLE version. And they have really high costs because of this. The reason the responsible IT team can get away with this is that the costs caused in projects are not made transparent. All other of my customers have various versions in production and OS updates are made on case-by-case decisions. This does not mean that it's always easy to do updates. As you said unknown workloads are a big issue. Ciao, Michael.