On Sat, Oct 01, 2016 at 06:17:42PM +0300, Saku Ytti wrote: > On 1 October 2016 at 18:12, James Jun <james....@towardex.com> wrote: > > > We also want support contracts from our vendors. EOL boxes get removed > > from support availability within few years of the announcement. > > Support, particularly software maintenance is indeed the key deadline, > after that you're on your own. For EX this would be 2019 or 2021 > depending on model, if that fits to your amortisation times, then it's > fine. You may get more out of it, but you can't build business case on > it.
Yup, exactly. There are things to keep around from used market for unimportant stuff (OOB etc), but software maintenance support on production box is key. James
