[CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

Hi Guys,

I have a client who hopes to keep their server another 5 years making it 10 years old at that time.

At this point there are no plans to add new infrastructure or a new server to the mix. Their business model is fairly static.

I'd like to see them upgrade. Can anyone suggest specific reasons why running a business on 10 year old equipment is a bad thing?

Specific arguments I can think of would be: - Hard/Impossible to find replacement hardware - Lack of support for both H/W and S/W - Possibly unable to run current versions of CentOS - Higher probability of hardware failures over time - Performance bottlenecks

Any other thoughts?

Shawn