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Even if someone is using 3.1 or 95, it would not bother me depending on the circumstance. There are still plenty of COBOL uses, which predate my lifetime. What is missing is the acceptance everything can fail, and redundancy is not an option. I saw a headline Delta still has not fully recovered, and the politicians are investigating why. I still try to point out all who use a computer need to be prepared for it to disappear/poof at any moment, and the same for their office. Once someone can say they can reasonably quickly start over with no location or hardware from the past, and proved it by real testing, then and only then do they have a good recovery plan.

"Our CEOs and Board of Directors are trained at the elite business schools to consider IT and IT security as a controllable expense since it doesn't produce any revenue." Skipping how it can cost revenue (at best) and end the entity (at worst)? Skippy teaching Skippy. There needs to be some old war horses kept in the education and reality loop. People who have dealt with total data loss and total machine failure, at the same moment. School of Hard Knocks (or for original Raider fans, the University of Mars) wins again! I am a firm believer that IT "school" can never be timely, it can give a foundation, but hard knocks is a MUST to be current. "As a result many IT functions are subcontracted out too often to the lowest bidder." "Lowest bidder" always makes the hairs on my neck tingle. Yet, I drive over overpasses built by a company who usually is the lowest bidder, but they figured out how to pad by getting a bonus for early completion.

Our CEOs and Board of Directors are trained at the elite business schools to consider IT and IT security as a controllable expense since it doesn't produce any revenue. As a result many IT functions are subcontracted out too often to the lowest bidder.

I have read multiple articles saying that SWA has been using a mixture of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. I have read airline industry articles over the last 3 or 4 years criticizing SWA for not updating their IT infrastructure. The most amazing thing to me is reading that some IT departments are having to deal with this faulty update one computer at a time. Read a very interesting article saying that most of our IT systems have multiple "single points of failure" , explaining that similar outages will happen again in the near future.

Efiling is sent over the internet but I can still work on tax returns locally while the internet is being restored. If my tax software was cloud, I'd have to find something else to do.

It would pretty damn useless for me to have a forum just on my computer that no one else could access.

I know this is waaaay late ... but I just saw this thread. I purchased via Sigma the past two years. Drake told me they provide support, regardless where you purchase it. I've had no issue getting support directly from Drake.