From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 13:50:52 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:   
      
   > We decided not to move to the newer versions. For over a decade, we have   
   > been able to live off the last-time-buy of each chip that went out of   
   > production.  The approaching end of that stock fortuitously dovetails   
   > with our desire to retire and shut down our business - with proper time   
   > buffer to allow us to give our customers 2 years of warning and make   
   > their own last-time-buy. But it is hard to convince a railway company in   
   > Taiwan that we REALLY are going away.   
      
   I know that feeling.  The company I worked for had two divisions, public   
   safety and school bus routing. The decision was made to shut down the   
   public safety to concentrate on the school bus routing. We informed all of   
   the public safety clients and offered to work with them to transfer   
   archival data when they found a new vendor. 12/31/2025 was the last day of   
   extended support and a couple of sites still haven't moved on. We wished   
   them good luck. The Esri products they are using are also out of support.   
      
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