In many industrial and retail use cases, 10 years is the low end. 3-5 years is an
accounting timeline (for depreciation) not necessarily the useful life of the asset. If
the asset can be used after it’s done depreciating that is a bonus for the company using
it.
Thanks,
On Apr 14, 2022, at 7:24 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
<johannbg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 14.4.2022 11:42, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote:
> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>
>> For example EU has regulation that requires vendors to have spare parts
>> available for 7–10 years after date of manufacturing so it makes sense
>> for the project to support hw no longer than a decade from the date of
>> it's manufacturing. ( which makes the oldest hw being support being
>> manufactured in 2012 ) and every process,workflows and decision being
>> bound by that.
> Lack of availability of original spare parts does not mean that the hardware
> suddenly magically stops working for everybody.
>
No but it does mean that they cant run indefinitely
And there needs to be a number on this to adjust users expectation and 10 years is a
reasonable number from a business, parts and recycle/re-use availability,
What is unreasonable is to be expecting that it's supported indefinitely from OS and
or HW vendors.
JBG
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