[ale] FW: Redhat Linux 9.0 Admin and Redhat Linux 9.0 General skills are in demand. Come back to Elance and get hired today!

[Jim Kinney]

I guess the large list of *-compat libs don't get tested enough for PHBs to
understand that pretty much anything that ran on RedHat9 will run on RHEL6.

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>   I was going to say you were wrong but found a link (see below) that
> confirms RHEL4 is in “Extended Life” support through 2015.   Its Production
> life ended last February which was what I thought was its EOL date.   We
> did migrate off our last RHEL4 system about mid-year last year.****
>
> ** **
>
> https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/****
>
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>
> It’s only been a couple of years since we finally got rid of our last RH 9
> or worse yet a couple of old RH 7.3 systems inherited when I got here 8
> years ago.   It wouldn’t surprise me to find many places are still running
> similar old systems.****
>
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>
> Sometimes it is difficult to move legacy applications because they simply
> don’t understand newer libraries and layouts.   Convincing management that
> is a good reason to dump the legacy stuff is often a challenge especially
> if the maker of that application is long since gone and it requires
> training folks how to use something entirely new.    ****
>
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>
> What is really maddening to me is how often we do move 90% of things off
> to newer platforms but have to keep the old ones around for that last
> 10%.   I’ve seen this with those old RedHat systems, BSD,  HP-UX and (OMG)
> AS-400 since I’ve been here.   Usually you have to wait for the old
> hardware to die at which point the reason for running the application seems
> to get outweighed by the cost of repairs.****
>
> ** **
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