The It World Moves Fast, So Why Are Admins Slow To Upgrade?
The Register, Monday, March 10th, 2025
Mission-critical app migration, 'if it ain't broke...' and more. All that glitters isn't gold when it comes to biz needs
Administrators tend to be a conservative lot, which is bad news for tech vendors such as Microsoft that are seeking to pump their latest and greatest products into enterprises customers via subscriptions.
SQL Server 2019 recently dropped out of mainstream support and is now on borrowed time, with extended support running until its final retirement on January 8, 2030.
Support for its successor, SQL Server 2022, began on November 16, 2022, but according to asset tracking biz Lansweeper, users are giving it a wide berth. The latest data puts SQL Server 2019 comfortably at the top for market share, at 28.9 percent, while SQL Server 2022 languishes at the bottom, behind SQL Server 2008, 2005, and 2008 R2, with a less than 0.1 percent market share.
The question is, why?