'We should not expect something to work just because it is declared supported, . . ."

Why should IPv6 be different than any other feature a vendor documents?

He's probably a new hire at t-mobile supporting Sidekick cloud storage. Or the last person quit after having his team rightsized down to a single person from a dozen.

Same situation, except it's from a Bunch of A**hats calling about a VISA card bill. Never heard of this guy, but I know his name, balance, last payment and previous address. I called the Privacy Compliance Office of BoA without resolving the calls. Since they managed assign my cell phone to Joe Deadbeat this was a a little annoying. Eventually, I filed a complaint with State Attorney General, Jerry Brown at the time, and the calls did stop.

I also got a letter on lawyer's letterhead denying that they ever called me, that personal information had been given out on phone calls which never happened, and that no record of inappropriate contact information existed.

Be well aware of what you don't know. There are good comments about security and reliability already. Outsource things such e-mail and web services to a reliable, willing to be audited vendor. Ensure DR plan and testing is included.

Now the big point. You have greater than 6 TB of storage. Is there a backup and recovery plan in place? RAID is not equal to backup. Is this information important to the business or is someone unwilling to learn "delete" options? Does the backup plan include off site media migration? That can be as expensive as Iron Mountain, a company safe deposit box or just someone takes a tape set home on Fridays. Test your recovery on bare metal. Cloud backups are one option, although you're now betting that another company will survive and maintain any privacy requirements you have. Warn the decision makers, ensure that the "when Drobo raid controller burps and scrambles all disks" there will be no recovery is a possible scenario. Granted that may or may not happen this year or next. It's more likely that Bart the intern will purge the Drobo so he can save DVDs he's ripping all afternoon. Now you have redundant movies.

Document the warnings and the decision to not spend money and accept the risk(s). As management amnesia sets in, this keeps you from holding the bag.

Jerry Pournelle, generally well known rocket scientist, technologist and big name writer was science adviser to Congressman G. Jerry writes about getting a call from somebody "calling from congress." Turned out to be Newt, having read A Step Further Out, personally calling to recruit. That led to a long term staff gig and ears to whisper in. I don't tend to agree with Newt's latest directions, but I'm willing to listen to anyone willing to to give Jerry Pournelle a microphone and input into space and science policy.

There are always options. One, scrounge available RAM from another unit. Two, spend the 20 or thirty dollars and add your own ram module. It's worth it in time, just make sure to have some sort of inventory control documentation. Three, take option two and turn in the reciept.

The 37 remaining Vista users were polled. Does the lack of IE 10 impact your use of the workstation?
6 are waiting to buy a new PC with Windows 7
12 need a vendor to certify the business critical application on Windows 7
2 installed Ubuntu
9 didn't understand the question
8 asked Cowboy Neil to take of their computer.

I used to work for a company that provided real estate database services. We were pulled into court by a patent troll claiming their mapping search patent was being infringed by our search applications. We had to pull together a PDP chassis and enough cards to boot, but we were able to read 15+ year old archive tapes. The prize, we offered mapping based searches in the 80's on dial up terminals. Source code, written in MACRO-11, PDP assembler, showing prior art. Historical contract files documented selling this feature to customers.

The moral, even when you retire a platform and application, holding backup tapes can have value. Second, keep some way to read the silly thing around.

Coincidentally they (Arizona) have no income tax.

Arizona has personal income tax. I used to to live there and filed every year. States with no income tax are:
Alaska
Florida
Nevada
South Dakota
Texas
Washington
Wyoming
New Hampshire and Tennessee tax only dividend and interest income

>>>MLSs only track currently offered properties, and the records themselves belong to the person making the listing
MLS systems track currently offered properties and history for providing "comps" to current listings. Second class access is available for users like appraisers and title company agents with either off market or archive only access.

>>>records themselves belong to the person making the listing
The listing belongs to the Realtor Broker sponsoring the agent who signs the listing. Depending on the local MLS structure, the Broker is often a share owner of the MLS. The MLS provides the "trading floor" and advertising for agent to agent business. In a little town, a weekly tour bus can show off the latest listings. In a larger metro area, replacing the trading floor can have a major impact on sales.

>>>individual agents would just have to re-submit their listings
And how do you propose to recover the history, as well as the listings of the the guy who retired or landed in jail? It's not what's for sale, but what's for sale and what does the market history deem a reasonable price.

The interest of the database owner is to sell access. It's the business of the MLS to provide data, so anything that impacts access is a very big issue. Even so, some large MLS entities so understand the importance of off site backups and felt RAID will resolve any issues.

We had one customer burn down and were able to move communications, fly out a replacement system and reload the system with transaction files to close of business on fire day within 36 hours. Another customer would ignore changing tapes until they lost three days of updates. They never missed a tape cycle after that.