[dba-Tech] Dire warnings

Hi Jim

At my work, we migrated to Windows 7 as part of our four yearly hardware
upgrade cycle. I'm not sure how people are convincing themselves that doing
it is too expensive - I think it'd be more expensive NOT to upgrade, in the
long run.


Jon

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: 22 September 2013 19:37
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Dire warnings

Hi All:

I have been receiving warnings similar to the following link:

http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/xp-nightmare-whitepaper.shtml?elq_mid=
3168&elq_cid=848849&v=BCC1h_WP_Nightmare&ls=ENT_HL_MOB_XP_BCC1h&sf=701a00000
00ewMV&ecid=CLENO000000848849&elq=0cc0db94d81b44ecbbfc35a10b2d2746

Where the above message came from is curious to me but there seems to be a
number of such messages going out and they seem like just some scare tactic.
Some of my client's have also been receiving them and they are all getting
very concerned.

They can always move up to a later version of Windows but I have been
assembling a Linux replacement build in-case the price is more than they
want to pay. I just don't know which way to go on this but will have to play
it by ear.

Any suggestions or comments will be great-fully accepted.

Jim 
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