Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 10 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-squareSharkAttaklinkfedilink5•10 months agoNot to mention when you want to change the entire system it becomes a huge operation and problem.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 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.
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.