Over 45,000 VMware ESXi servers just reached end-of-life. Shockingly, when you drop support for viable hardware in the new version, everyone stays on the old version.

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[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If they're smart, which I doubt, they will switch to qemu/kvm.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

version/planned osbsolescence comment for you https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=22235169&cid=62976909

[–]Anman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I remember when someone posted the article about linux considering abandoning old hardware.

There is nothing new in new hardware, so whatever.