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Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
From: Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 07:52:13 -0700
On 10/20/2014 07:20 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:58:01 -0400, shawn wilson said:Bad idea. I'm betting we'd find half of gov web sites down due to not being able to reboot and issues in old coldfusion and IIS and the like (and needing to fix static links and testing etc).You say that like it's a bad thing....
It's a dollar thing -- show me a substantial return on the investment and I'll back it all the way. Notice that nowhere in the litany do the terms "LAMP" or "Linux" show up. Adobe and Microsoft would *love* the increased revenue from updates that would have to be applied to all those old servers. And what about those sites that were made using Front Page? Talk about a nightmare. A costly one. "A billion here, a billion there, soon you are talking about real money." -- misattributed to the late Senator Everett Dirkson (1896-1969, R-Illinois 1951-69)
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- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?, (continued)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Barry Shein (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? David Conrad (Oct 21)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Doug Barton (Oct 21)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Sandra Murphy (Oct 21)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Peter Kristolaitis (Oct 21)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? David Conrad (Oct 21)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? ITechGeek (Oct 21)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Eric Brunner-Williams (Oct 21)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Tei (Oct 22)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Barry Shein (Oct 22)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Stephen Satchell (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? shawn wilson (Oct 20)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Mehmet Akcin (Oct 19)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? John Levine (Oct 19)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Franck Martin (Oct 19)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Paige Thompson (Oct 19)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? David Conrad (Oct 19)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? Jim Popovitch (Oct 19)
- Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies? William Allen Simpson (Oct 19)