@decryobliv Well that assumes staying the status quo is good for forever more. In general, not a good approach. Given enough time upgrades can be justified. For example, 10 years ago you would never hear the word "virtualization" but VMWare et al have made deprecating various legacy boxes possible. You can eliminate lots of physical systems in a data center that are considered "critical" to the business but aren't transactionally intense, i.e. they're mostly idle computationally (less than 10% CPU utilization). What I'm talking about is consolidation. You can make images of 4 to 6 systems then run those machine images on one contemporary physical server. Your power draw just dropped off dramatically. Power is a major cost in operating a data center.
That's just one scenario of several I can think of where purchasing (new) software makes sense.
The problem with Gartner is they sensationalize everything to the benefit of vendors but specifically to fan the flames of yearly upgrades.
-M
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