Business critical app on 15yr old Solaris system...

[SketchMaster]

...What could go wrong?

 

[Platypus]

You don't want to know how much crucial shit runs on garbage old solaris boxes or other old weirdo UNIX variants out there

 

[mrblotto]

lol

I saw this in another thread somewhere:

*Everything going smoothly - no major problems* - Company - "What are we paying you for?"

*Shit is hitting the fan - Armegeddon is upon us* - Company - "What are we paying you for?"

The bottom line seems to win every time - until it bites you in the ass

 

[Red Squirrel]

Haha this is way too common.

It's even more common in telecom, though telecom stuff tends to be built like a tank and just keeps working. There's equipment at my work place that has an uptime longer than I've been alive.

 

[brianmanahan]

sounds like somebody needs some relaxovision

 

[SketchMaster]

Haha this is way too common.

It's even more common in telecom, though telecom stuff tends to be built like a tank and just keeps working. There's equipment at my work place that has an uptime longer than I've been alive.

Not this box, a group of people have a part-time job of keeping it alive. Which is ironic because leadership has cut all funding to it outside of keeping it online.

lol

I saw this in another thread somewhere:

*Everything going smoothly - no major problems* - Company - "What are we paying you for?"

*Shit is hitting the fan - Armegeddon is upon us* - Company - "What are we paying you for?"

The bottom line seems to win every time - until it bites you in the ass

We've already had to scrounge for parts when it died a few years back, and have to reboot it weekly when emails flood my inbox from pissed off users.

I love it when Devs moan about it so much that we offer to give them access to fix it. They take one look at the code and never say a peep again.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Not this box, a group of people have a part-time job of keeping it alive. Which is ironic because leadership has cut all funding to it outside of keeping it online.

Ahhh yes, the classic "This is too critical we can't touch it!" syndrome. When I worked at the hospital there was a lot of stuff like that. Half baked solutions running on NT4 boxes or SCO Unix or other weird environments like that. There was one server, it was for the entire financial system and ran on SCO Unix. Nobody actually had the password to get into the box and because it was actually SCO Unix and not just Linux it's not like you could just use a rescue CD to go reset the password, it was super proprietary. That system was a mess. It would lock up and have to be rebooted twice a week when they did pay roll. If something happened to that server, they basically lost all payroll information. There was lot of stuff like that at that place, it was one of the many reasons I left. Everything was a time bomb waiting to blow up in my face and we had no power to fix it.

 

[skull]

Even worse the piece of shit website talking about this still uses flash.

 

[Exterous]

Last place I worked kept win 2000 systems alive because there was no one around who understood the code and incredibly complex hardware it needed to control since it was a one off crazy expensive setup job back then (it 'grew' wafers from materials like argon and arsenic). We had a large stash of parts to keep them going. That setup accounted for 1/2 of the company's revenue

 

[ultimatebob]

Yeah, you would be amazed how many POS and ATM systems out there are still running 15+ year old versions of Windows XP.

Hell, I've even seen some running DOS.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Going through this headache right now. Nothing quite as esoteric as Solaris (relatively speaking, just 2003 and WinCE boxen), but proprietary hardware with no replacement path, no spare parts, and no real plan for when something inevitably fails. Genius!

 

[DigDog]

blocked at work :/

 

[manly]

Yeah, you would be amazed how many POS and ATM systems out there are still running 15+ year old versions of Windows XP.

Hell, I've even seen some running DOS.

Windows XP "POSReady" is actually still supported by Microsoft.

Going through this headache right now. Nothing quite as esoteric as Solaris (relatively speaking, just 2003 and WinCE boxen), but proprietary hardware with no replacement path, no spare parts, and no real plan for when something inevitably fails. Genius!

I don't know about lifetime units sold or current install base, but I consider WinCE more esoteric than Solaris.

 

[sdifox]

Mid 90s I was working on a terminal to replace punch card readers for chemical recipe cuz it was no longer possible to get replacement read heads...Kodak.

 

[Ns1]

We had business critical apps on AS400 servers up until last year.

 

[sdifox]

We had business critical apps on AS400 servers up until last year.

Token ring of death.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Haha this is way too common.

It's even more common in telecom, though telecom stuff tends to be built like a tank and just keeps working. There's equipment at my work place that has an uptime longer than I've been alive.

Oh man, that just made me laugh out loud.