We have been a continuous presence in this market for over 20 years. Our clients are business and MIS executives top businesses and universities in the United States. The labor time involved and lost productivity costs, while difficult to measure, are quite staggering. This does not solve the long-term support cost issue inherent in the typical distributed computing model. Choose your applications, then your hardware.
Stable hardware is only a base for stable applications.
Besides, any applications under consideration cannot depend on a technology that doesn't exist yet. C. Leasing is just a way to finance the cycle. It can complicate the scene with a variety of equipment and configurations with different lease anniversaries. This requires additional discussion in order to work most effectively. D. Outsourcing risks too much and only shifts the support burden to another entity.