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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] SharkAttak@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention when you want to change the entire system it becomes a huge operation and problem.

[โ€“] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Massive risk to that change too.

So many people don't understand how risk informs everything a business does.

What cost is there to a given system being down for one hour? A day? Any regulations around it?

Often it's better to pay a known quantity up front than risk potential outages where you can't predict all the downstream affects.