• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    0·
    17 days ago

    It is more like ‘involuntarily end up riding the risks of using unsupported old software’.

    Involuntarily? An org choosing to use an EOL OS to keep running an application is a business choice that accepts the risk of compromise/lack of support of an EOL OS. Any org in this situation has 3 choices:

    • deprecate the application entirely closing down that line of business the application was supporting
    • rewrite/replace the application to maintain the line of business on a modern supported OS
    • continue to run the EOL OS and accept the risks

    There’s nothing involuntary here.

    • akash_rawal@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      16 days ago
      1. Struggle to come to a conclusion on what to do with the EOL OS because of internal political factors and the reality of how enterprise works.

      This is the involuntary choice. If you cannot choose from the first three, you end up implicitly choosing the fourth.