What’s blowing my mind about this entire thread is the “rewrite application to support RHEL9” thing I keep seeing. What the fuck applications are y’all running that are so tightly bound to the OS that they can’t handle library and/or kernel updates?
Most of the time I’ve run into this its COTS software and the customer refuses to pay for the cost of the updated version or the company that wrote the original COTS application is long since out of business.
That’s what I’m thinking too but then remember my first corporate job where the application depended on an exact subversion of Java 8, no earlier and no later. This was in 2021. Knowing that company I’d bet they’re still rocking the same setup.
What’s blowing my mind about this entire thread is the “rewrite application to support RHEL9” thing I keep seeing. What the fuck applications are y’all running that are so tightly bound to the OS that they can’t handle library and/or kernel updates?
Most of the time I’ve run into this its COTS software and the customer refuses to pay for the cost of the updated version or the company that wrote the original COTS application is long since out of business.
That’s what I’m thinking too but then remember my first corporate job where the application depended on an exact subversion of Java 8, no earlier and no later. This was in 2021. Knowing that company I’d bet they’re still rocking the same setup.