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Nearly 20% of Microsoft SQL Servers running have passed end of support (www.theregister.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In my experience it’s normally unsupported 5 years after they released an updated version. The enterprises probably haven’t bothered to update because it requires too much time to plan, or the people responsible have long since moved on and the knowledge has been lost.

Probably not M$ being the bad guys. You can’t support ancient versions forever.

[–] Dashi 8 points 5 months ago

Very much this. I dislike M$ as much as the next guy but it isn't always their fault. The biggest reason we have outdated SQL in my experience is older software that clients do not want to pay for an upgrade for that uses a sql backend that will break if we have the databases in compatibility mode.

Just like M$ with good reason (mostly) end of life's an OS they need to no longer mainstream support older software versions.