What are forced upgrades?
Developers or vendors of proprietary software often stop supporting any particular version after a few years. Support refers to helping businesses and other users when they encounter problems that they cannot solve themselves, supplying patches for users to apply in order to combat new viruses, etc. Also, developers often design new or upgraded application programs so that they will not run well on older versions of operating systems. Thus, many users feel that they are being forced to upgrade to new versions, usually at considerable expense and inconvenience. Q: Our company wants to study the possibility of gradually converting its IT infrastructure from a certain proprietary operating system to Linux. What are the arguments in favor of such a conversion. A: There are many, and they are enumerated on the page Reasons to Convert.
