On 10/5/07, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote: > On 10/5/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > However, while virtualization can be a handy way to keep old systems > > working, it also provides a convenient excuse to keep old applications > > that really ought to be replaced and are now nothing more than a > > liability. We're running some old NT stuff in VMs, and it's really just > > a millstone round our necks. > > If the apps don't have business value, get rid of them.
Well that's the problem, isn't it. You end up with old applications that are critical to the business that can no longer be sanely managed, supported, or upgraded. The correct decision would have been to sort them out properly but that wasn't done because dropping them into a VM was an easy way of avoiding the issue back then. Only later do you realise how bad the consequences are. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
