Good one. I run into very similar situations. Focus purely on cash cost of maintenance of older stuff vs newer stuff. Quote reputable sources like Gartner Group, etc... Get a little familiar with ITIL in terms of like cycle. Its very daunting to convince companies to spend money but if you frame your Power Point, Project presentations around road A costs this much, road B costs that much, you pick, then mebbe good things will happen. Another thing my mom has instilled is that "you catch more bees with honey". I have a tendency to sound like I am preaching and I am not, in fact my motto is "I dunno shizzle". But I just want to emphasize the pain that I run into this all the time and some times succeed, I pretend to be a CFO/bean counter with the attitude "if it ain't broke, why replace it", which is valid if you think of it. On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos