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Dear Michel,<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/10/2019 17:16, Michel Py wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">3 months ago, I turned DECNET off on my network. It was actually not even an IT/network decision; customer decided they were done with a product, and we de-commissioned the tools with DECNET. Business decision. We run OS/2 Warp, MS-DOS, Windows 95, HPUX, Solaris, Windows 2000, and I probably forget some.</pre>
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I don't mean to be criticising in any way, but running services on
obsolete operating systems is a risk in itself, if the computer is
connected to the Internet. For example, Windows 2000 end of support
was as far back as July 13, 2010.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/education/2009/11/10/windows-2000-end-of-life/">https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/education/2009/11/10/windows-2000-end-of-life/</a><br>
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That means no security updates. With today's Internet being nothing
like the Internet back in 2000, is this really reasonable? Unless,
of course, the hardware is behind some modern firewalls.<br>
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Everything has a sell by date. All hardware becomes obsolete too.<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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