Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 11 months agoGerman railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systemswww.techspot.commessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1857cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish32•edit-211 months agoUntil it becomes obsolete, unsupportable, the crux of your operation, and/or the basis for all of your decisions 😬 (Yes, I read the article, it’s just the signs, but yes, the above still applies!)
minus-squareSharkAttaklinkfedilink5•11 months agoNot to mention when you want to change the entire system it becomes a huge operation and problem.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoMassive risk to that change too. So many people don’t understand how risk informs everything a business does. What cost is there to a given system being down for one hour? A day? Any regulations around it? Often it’s better to pay a known quantity up front than risk potential outages where you can’t predict all the downstream affects.
minus-squareTurunlinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoI’d consider those various states of not working. So… Don’t fix it if it’s not broken!
Until it becomes obsolete, unsupportable, the crux of your operation, and/or the basis for all of your decisions 😬
(Yes, I read the article, it’s just the signs, but yes, the above still applies!)
Not to mention when you want to change the entire system it becomes a huge operation and problem.
Massive risk to that change too.
So many people don’t understand how risk informs everything a business does.
What cost is there to a given system being down for one hour? A day? Any regulations around it?
Often it’s better to pay a known quantity up front than risk potential outages where you can’t predict all the downstream affects.
I’d consider those various states of not working. So… Don’t fix it if it’s not broken!