[NCLUG] Ousting Exchange

[Chad Perrin]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:17:16PM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:26:50AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> >I tend to figure that when Stable rolls over, it's time to replace the
> >server, anyway -- if only to ensure good uptime by having hardware that
> 
> Fair enough, but I'm sure you can understand that a lot of people would
> rather base such migration plans on things like company budgets, available
> staff time, business slow seasons, customer availbility to assist in
> migration and testing, etc...
> 
> For example, doing such a migration for a customer who does retail in
> November or December would be the worst time for it to happen, and also the
> worst time for them to not be getting errata updates.  For telcos it would
> be in June, July, and August.

That was a semi-serious statement at best.  See the rest of my
commentary.  Upgrading versions is not all that much of a burden -- and
the previous Stable release is still supported with security updates for
some time after the roll-over.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ CCD CopyWrite | http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
"Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
build programs out of the wrong concepts." - Paul Graham