So we got a note from out vendor that Toshiba was ending support on all MAS products as of Sept 1, 2016. Never mind the fact that we just purchased one in April..

They are telling us that we need to upgrade them to the IP edge servers. So I asked what the new software looked like, and was taold everything is the same, but it is virtualized. So, my question was :If it is the same software, still running on Windows, why are they dropping support on it. Just don't support the machine." They did not have an answer. We have 8 of these in a Health Care environment, just bang, we are all done?

Is our vendor confused?

Was also told that if we upgraded, we still had to buy a physical server, we just cannot drop it into our VMWare environment that is already in place. So they are still going to support a physical machine? What is the point of virtualization then?
Yes I am venting a little. But really?