Enterprise Edition

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sat Dec 9 22:51:52 UTC 2006


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Hi,

* Anthony Yarusso:
> Jeremy Visser wrote:
>>> Hi everybody.
>>>
>>> The following quote is included in a lot of Ubuntu documentation:
>>>
>>>         Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee
>>>         for the "enterprise edition," we make our very best work
>>>         available to everyone on the same Free terms.
>>>
>>> It has always bugged me that because there is the word "the" before
>>> "enterprise edition", it implies that there is actually an enterprise
>>> edition.
>>>
>>> I am aware of the fact that Dapper has long-term support, and is
>>> "enterprise-ready", but it's not called "the enterprise edition". Not in
>>> the sense of Red Hat or Novell's enterprise editions, anyway.

> Sounds right to me - Mark's always said there wasn't any sort of
> Enterprise Edition, so I'd second this change.

I disagree. First of all, even if "the enterprise edition" wasn't the
official name used for the long term support releases, there clearly is
an enterprise edition of Ubuntu, using the phrase purely descriptively.

Secondly, the long term support releases *are* described as enterprise
editions.

  http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases

Matt
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