[dba-Tech] XP - What to do Win 7 or Ubuntu

Tydda Jon - Lonza Slough jon.tydda at lonza.com
Mon Mar 24 04:15:04 CDT 2014


I don't think that hardware old enough to still be running XP will cope with 8.1 - I'd be looking at doing hardware upgrades at the same time. Fill them with RAM, build them as 64bit, and you won't need to replace them for years.


Jon

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From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 9:11 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] XP - What to do Win 7 or Ubuntu

Hello All,

I have a customer with 8 XP machines in a total of 16 machines.

Options are

1) upgrade to Win 8.1, including a possible RAM upgrade
2) leave xp alone and wait until some problem occurs
3) install Ubuntu.

They only use a browser so Ubuntu would work ok for her.

Given I have only played with Ubuntu and cannot offer deep support, but cost is a factor for my client, what do you suggest I do.

thanks

Mark
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