On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Stephen Satchell <l...@satchell.net> wrote: > On 10/20/2014 07:20 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:58:01 -0400, shawn wilson said: >> >>> Bad idea. I'm betting we'd find half of gov web sites down due to not being >>> able to reboot and issues in old coldfusion and IIS and the like (and >>> needing to fix static links and testing etc). >> >> You say that like it's a bad thing.... > > It's a dollar thing -- show me a substantial return on the investment
Indeed > > Adobe and Microsoft would *love* the increased revenue from updates that > would have to be applied to all those old servers. And what about those > sites that were made using Front Page? Talk about a nightmare. A > costly one. > Oh yeah, I totally forgot about old FrontPage. I was thinking Homesite or Dreamweaver, but idk FrontPage from ~10 years back would port very clean into anything modern. So, if anything there needed changing, you'd have to do a manual cleanup of that code.
