OOo 2.1

[Bry Melvin]

--- Art Alexion <art.alexion at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 December 2006 12:53, Howard Coles
> Jr. wrote:
> > Considering all the "unstable" messages around
> 2.0.4 I was just wondering
> > if there was going to be a port of 2.1 back to
> Edgy and Dapper?
> >
> > it would really be nice I think.
> 
> Michael Holdeman successfully installed in
> /usr/local
> 
> I doubt it will make it to Dapper of Edgy as the
> versions are locked.  It may 
> make it to a backport repo.
> 
> -- 
> 
businesses using Ubuntu/Kubuntu have no interest in
any version but dapper. If Canonical is serious about
"LTS" versions then we should probably see a version
for Dapper. I can understand skipping Edgy but if they
really want to keep the Business users that have moved
over from Novell and Red Hat they need to keep the
Office suite somewhat current,

It's unsettling to see answers to problems with dapper
answered by references to upgrading to a six month 
version. Without the 3year/five year version we would
have migrated to Novell here. We and I'm sure others
put Dapper in with idea to keep it at least two years,
Testing and updating every six monts is too much. Like
many businesses we need to carry over some  windows
apps. Basic installation of what we need per machine
would be 200 USD for Red Hat 60 for the latest Novell
assuming Xen would work as needed,100 if we still
needed Crossover. and 40 USD for Ubuntu plus
Crossover. Even adding more paid support for Ubuntu
comes out the winner for a small business.  But this
won't work if backports aren't kept up of the LTS
versions.



Bryann


 
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