2 Apr
2013
2 Apr
'13
6:57 p.m.
On 02/04/13 12:13 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:45 AM, R
SMALLWOOD<rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
That kind of tying hardware upgrade to a purely arbitrary software
decision should be illegal, period.
That it is not, is a sign of how far things are out of whack. Waste
might have been acceptable for a few recent decades, but it won't always
be acceptable, or even possible.
--Toby
Does the phrase "planned obsolescence"
mean anything to anybody?
Don't get me started. Look at the upgrade chain for commercial
Solaris these days. What you can/can't run Solaris 10 on, Solaris 11
on, etc. But that's another thread all on its own.
I'm an ex-HP/ArcSight guy who now does ArcSight consulting with a
small firm, and we have a lot of great customers. That said, some of
those customers are using older (3-5 years old) appliance hardware
which was sold by ArcSight (pre-HP.) The hardware works fine and is
sized appropriately for their needs, but HP won't support the latest
software upgrades on it, and those software upgrades are required to
avoid a nasty XSS bug. So I can't upgrade a keep a customer's system
secure because they aren't running the most recent ($$$) hardware. It doesn't help that the original hardware ArcSight
used for their
appliances was Dell-based,...