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Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin

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Re: Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin

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Previous discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168469 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39160956

And it's not Deutsche Bahn but Siemens Mobility: https://www.heise.de/news/Deutsche-Bahn-sucht-Admin-fuer-Win... (in German)

Re: Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin

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After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair.

> "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0]

In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...

Re: Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin

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Previous discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168469 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39160956

And it's not Deutsche Bahn but Siemens Mobility: https://www.heise.de/news/Deutsche-Bahn-sucht-Admin-fuer-Win... (in German)

The article states it's either Deutsche Bahn or Siemens.

Re: Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin

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post #4

After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...

> After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair.

Well, it's cheaper than state run. And that comes at a cost.

Re: Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin

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After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...

It is a good recommendation to follow the "if it works don't touch it" motto, but it is also true that they have time and resources (you don't need that much!) to port this to a modern platform and perform all the QA activities that you need to be 99% sure everything works as expected.

Through one of my companies we were/are involved in many of these efforts (e.g. application virtualization) and the use of legacy software [1]. Win 3.11 is a relatively easy target. Much much easier than other projects we dealt with.

[1] https://blog.nektra.com/2014/02/12/nektra-escalation-support...

Re: Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin

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post #4

After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...

Are there any trains that runs on k8s?

Re: Deutsche Bahn is looking for Win 3.11 admin

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After 30 years or privatization, Deutsche Bahn might be broken beyond repair. > "Deutsche Bahn is unable to cope with the simplest tasks of daily rail operations,” says a senior European railway official [0] In this case, however, I think they are doing the right thing in keeping software that has been working reliably for over 30 years. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/deutsche-bahn-str...

It is a good recommendation to follow the "if it works don't touch it" motto, but it is also true that they have time and resources (you don't need that much!) to port this to a modern platform and perform all the QA activities that you need to be 99% sure everything works as expected. Through one of my companies we were/are involved in many of these efforts (e.g. application virtualization) and the use of legacy sof…

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