On 2020-06-12 02:44, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On 12/6/20 10:17 am, Scott Bloom wrote:
>> Why is Win7 being dropped? I (my company) has gotten burned pretty
>> hard by the dropping of CentOS 6, similar reasons listed for win7..
>
> It's funny that there's so much discussion about dropping Windows 7
Hi,
for me not updating a system, software etc for many years is just equal to
building a technical debt. Any serious company should be aware that this
will finally kick them in their butt, should have measure the potential
cost and decide where is the point where they should switch. If a company
d
On 2020-06-13 03:22, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday, 12 June 2020 05:01:17 PDT Roland Hughes wrote:
>> You can't drop an OS as long as there are paying customers for it.
> Sure they can. But as a consequence, those customers may stop paying for it.
...and may never return.
>> Real business nee
On 2020-06-13 09:42, Filip Piechocki wrote:
> for me not updating a system, software etc for many years is just
> equal to building a technical debt. Any serious company should be
> aware that this will finally kick them in their butt, should have
> measure the potential cost and decide where is th
At the end of the day it is the commercial contracts that the Qt company
has that fund the development of Qt. If you have one, make sure to reach
out on the appropriate channels.
If you don't have one, get one, so you have a voice.
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Subject: Re: [Interest] [Development] Windows 7 support will be dropped in Qt 6
On Friday, 12 June 2020 05:01:17 PDT Roland Hughes wrote:
> You can't drop an OS as long as there are paying
Medical devices are certified with their manufacturing process.
Certification of something like a surgical robot can take 5+ years of
clinical trials. That is _after_ you have done all of your internal
development and cadaver trials.
On 6/13/20 5:00 AM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote:
On 6/13/20 5:00 AM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote:
Real business needs a 15-30 year LTS, not 5.
How do you define "real business"? How about by revenue or market
capitalisation? The biggest companies on the planet (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft)
don't support your assertion. The top one (App
On 6/13/20 5:00 AM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote:
Yes, anyone needing to support Win 7 can still use Qt 5, which is what's
going to happen for several more years at least. I though one of the
goals for Qt 6 was quicker adaptation than the Qt 4 -> 5 migration.
From this move, and every
On 6/13/20 5:00 AM, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
(*)if you walk into a running factory it is pretty normal to find a
large portion of the machines running XP, I would not be surprised to
find a W2k machine or even a machine running DOS in a factory that has
been running for 15 years. New factories wi
On 6/13/20 5:00 AM, Filip Piechocki wrote:
Hi,
for me not updating a system, software etc for many years is just equal to
building a technical debt. Any serious company should be aware that this
will finally kick them in their butt, should have measure the potential
cost and decide where is the
On 6/13/20 5:00 AM, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
Here is a challenge for you Thiago: on Monday contact the manufacturing
side of your company and ask them for a clean room tour in one of
Intel's many fabs - once there take a very close look at the control
screens of the machines in there, note the sy
I am not nearly as invested with big business as the rest of the people
here and lack the experience most of you have.
However what currently seems to be happening is a back and forth of
"We need to progress, because technical debt and X"
"Yes but big companies can't progress because Y"
This has be
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