Windows Server 2003 goes EOL in July 2015. Does anyone care?

[behindthepen]

I've been beginning to receive research notes telling me about how there are still 10m servers running on WS2003, and how they are all going to upgrade to Grantley servers when that chip comes out later this year. Or maybe some will go to AWS or Azure.

I don't have a feel for what kind of apps would be running on the same server for 10 years and now suddenly have to get upgraded to the latest tech, so wondering if anyone who deals with that stuff for a living has an opinion.

 

[AlNipper49]

I've been beginning to receive research notes telling me about how there are still 10m servers running on WS2003, and how they are all going to upgrade to Grantley servers when that chip comes out later this year. Or maybe some will go to AWS or Azure.

I don't have a feel for what kind of apps would be running on the same server for 10 years and now suddenly have to get upgraded to the latest tech, so wondering if anyone who deals with that stuff for a living has an opinion.

I doubt a lot of people upgrading will require X of anything. Frankly anyone relying on 2k3 could 1. Move it to the cloud or 2. Its a small shop using it for simple AD stuff where a simple upgrade onto commodity hardware will be fine.

 

[SoxFanInCali]

I'm using it as an excuse to get our dev guys to migrate off the last couple 32-bit 2003 servers we are running. All other Windows boxes in our environment are virtual 2008 R2.