Comment on Microsoft says Delta’s ancient IT explains long outage after CrowdStrike snafu
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 months agoComplexity increases exponentially in large organizations, for a number of reasons.
Comment on Microsoft says Delta’s ancient IT explains long outage after CrowdStrike snafu
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 months agoComplexity increases exponentially in large organizations, for a number of reasons.
TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I know my industry thanks. I’ve over a decade of experiance in sizable complex organizations. You know who else likes to cling rmto outdated hardware and software? Hopefully this scares you because it should: medical organizations.
What they peoppe did during this fiasco was objectively worse but everyone in this thread just isn’t happy that I didn’t join them in shitting on microsoft. This is where lemmy shows that its users are becoming more like reddit users every day.
Hopefully none of those systems were exposed to anything internet facing for obvious reasons, but given the shear incompetance observed I wouldn’t be surprised.
Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hi, I also know my industry, with over a quarter century of experience in Fortune 500 companies. The old motto of IT used to be ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ and then salespeople found out that fear is a great sales tool.
When proper precautions are taken and a risk analysis is performed there is no reason that old operating systems and software can’t continue to be used in production environments. I’ve seen many more systems taken down from updates gone wrong than from running ‘unsupported’ software. Just because a system is old, doesn’t mean it is vulnerable, often the opposite is true.
TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Theres not fixing what ain’t broke and there is refusing to budget to move on when needed. There are a lot of ifs and assumptions in your reply trying to put me in my place here. Old software that won’t run on anything modern becomes a recipe for disaster when said hardware breaks down and can’t be replaced with anything that functions.
Fuck it lets see if all 3 of my replies can get to negative 3 digits: none of this matters because the original problem was pretty damm easy to fix but here I am taking shit on social media for saying so.