Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

[shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net> wrote:
> 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

Indeed

> 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.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about old FrontPage. I was thinking Homesite
or Dreamweaver, but idk FrontPage from ~10 years back would port very
clean into anything modern. So, if anything there needed changing,
you'd have to do a manual cleanup of that code.