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That is not even remotely true.
Just estimated support costs alone are enough to move any business.
Set future standards and start moving towards that direction and pay people to do the work.
Tell me you know nothing about corporate IT without telling me you know nothing about corporate IT.
I fail to understand how suggesting that corporations respond to financial information would result in this response.
You are underestimating the cost of switching a business's infrastructure from one system to another. For an organization with 10,000+ staff, this is extremely prohibitive. The time and effort required for retraining alone makes this a non-starter.
No, but at that scale you already should have converted your Windows servers to VMs and then it just becomes a question of which applications are portable now and which ones only need you to talk to your vendors about future Linux support. For the internal applications, you should have a Disaster Recovery program that can be used to get the source code centralized into a set of git repositories and a single developer would be able to transition them to becoming more portable and “more compatible with future standards” to help the business avoid future maintenance problems and potentially temporarily losing access to them if an upstream vendor were to make a breaking change.