Yup, if you're not paying for power or space you can afford to keep those dinosaurs around, if they can do the job. Which they might still be able to do, just nowhere near as well as a Sandy Bridge E platform.
Heck, some of the developers might prefer to use a Haswell+7990 in a few months over time on those things... if they can get one on their desk.
Meanwhile in the colo world, everything up to Core 2 Xeons were being tossed out in lots when Nehalem came out because it was just that much more efficient.
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Yup, if you're not paying for power or space you can afford to keep those dinosaurs around, if they can do the job. Which they might still be able to do, just nowhere near as well as a Sandy Bridge E platform.
Heck, some of the developers might prefer to use a Haswell+7990 in a few months over time on those things... if they can get one on their desk.
Meanwhile in the colo world, everything up to Core 2 Xeons were being tossed out in lots when Nehalem came out because it was just that much more efficient.