Approach him like this. Tell him if he plans on moving his business forward within the next 5 years he should think accordingly. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, R-Elists <lists07 at abbacomm.net> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > __ > > Shawn, > > i dont think you mentioned the specific hardware involved... > > i.e. brand and model number and config > > it makes a difference in how we would approach it... > > mainly because we have some 10 year old and older hardware that has been > running rock solid it's entire life and we expect several more years out of > some of it... > > we keep hot and cold spares of everything though... > > to be semi generic, i am talking about business / industrial rackmount > Compaq & HP servers, and some telco quality Cisco of course... > > :-) > > please do share... > > - rh > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- http://www.goldwatches.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091012/3832014b/attachment-0005.html>