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Well... you opened this can of worms.

I think it is safe to say that almost everyone hates legacy systems.




You ever worked at a hospital?
No, you didn't? Oh that's sad. So you dont have a freakin clue what you are talking about.

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legacy system that cannot be upgraded should (must) be sequestered since it poses a risk to itself and the other systems.




A risk? What risk?
We had not a single virus in the last 4 years (!) here - and that's because of good firewalls, policy & e-mail/surf filtering and not because we apply every single M$ patch to our systems. I upgraded some old EKG-system (ONE computer!) some months ago. The company asked 6000EUR for doing it. I did it in around 3-4 days for "free". This time was needed because of COMPATIBILITY issues that come up on EVERY new M$ operating system. And I changed the system because the old systems hardware slowly broke, not because of a software problem. This whole hospital (including some retirement homes) are administed by exactly 3 (THREE) people. Updating every single computer here with all the special software including fixing M$ bugs would be a waste of time and money.

BTW. We still got around 70 P2(233) systems here (AND THEY WORK), most new systems get W2k. Wxp is a big no-no here, especially because of all sorts of compatibilty issues and a broken GUI. If this continues we will migrate to Linux and that's it.