[175324] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Mon Oct 20 10:52:21 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 07:52:13 -0700
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <93034.1413814845@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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On 10/20/2014 07:20 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@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
and I'll back it all the way. Notice that nowhere in the litany do the
terms "LAMP" or "Linux" show up.
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.
"A billion here, a billion there, soon you are talking about real
money." -- misattributed to the late Senator Everett Dirkson
(1896-1969, R-Illinois 1951-69)
