• Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    10 months ago

    I too work in IT… Just because I have some HR users that need to run Quickbooks, I don’t buy them Windows server 2022.

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      10 months ago

      Well, QuickBooks is hardly “mission critical” (usually) although its “server” functionality is so jank that it’s an entirely different discussion.

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        10 months ago

        If you have sufficient outage that paychecks don’t get cut… it will turn mission critical pretty fast.

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          10 months ago

          You’re not going to have a multiple-day outage. At most, it’ll be a few hours.

          If your company isn’t printing out paycheques and payroll advices at least a day before payday, and is instead waiting until the last minute, that represents an organisational failure, not a technical one.

          Edit: And don’t forget… the manager can always write the cheques by hand on a paper chequebook.