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Do Old Operating Systems Ever Die?
Riding a Dead Horse (like an Old Operating System?)
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians passed on from one generation to the next, says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.
However, in modern business and government, because of the heavy investment factors to be taken into consideration, often other strategies have to be tried with dead horses, including the following:
1. Buying a stronger whip
2. Changing riders
3. Threatening the horse with termination
4. Appointing a committee to study the horse
5. Arranging to visit other sites to see how they ride dead horses
6. Lowering the standards, so that dead horses can be included
7. Appointing an intervention team to reanimate the dead horse
8. Creating a training session to increase the riders load share
9. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired
10. Change the form so that it reads: This horse is not dead
11. Hire outside contractors to ride the dead horse
12. Harness several dead horses together for increased speed
13. Donate the dead horse to a recognized charity, thereby deducting its full original cost
14. Providing additional funding to increase the horses performance
15. Do a time management study to see if lighter riders would improve productivity
16. Purchase an after-market product to make dead horses faster
17. Declare that the dead horse has lower overhead and therefore performs better
18. Form a quality focus group to find profitable uses for dead horses
19. Rewrite the expected performance requirements for horses
20. Promote the dead horse to a supervisory position.
A similar list, much longer, appears here: Beating a Dead Horse
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