Re: Ximian dropping Debian ?
There was something on /. about this. One of Ximian's teenexecutives
stated that stable was too old and something to the effect that sid was
too new. Go check it out.
I liked Redhat soley because of Ximian's RedCarpet support. Debian still
beats it hands down with apt-get...imo.
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 13:52, James D. Freels wrote:
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> I was talking with an Ximian sales person about how to purchase Ximian
> Connector 1.4. I need this product at my work place in order to interface
> with the corporate e-mail/calendar server M$ Outlook Exchange. I also had
> need Evolution 1.4 in order to use the companion Connector product. Both of
> these products are available for download from Ximian, but not in Debian
> packages.
>
> This sales person stated something to the effect that starting with v1.4,
> Ximian would no longer support Debian. Further, their products would "no
> longer run on Debian systems" no matter how I hacked them with alien, etc.
> He also tried to explain this new policy as something to do with "corporate
> America", etc.
>
> Can anyone confirm this ? This makes no sense to me. First, why would Ximian
> cut off Debian ? Debian is a strong supporter of gnome which Ximian depends
> on. Second, how could the product not work anyway provided all the
> supporting Linux libraries were also loaded ? Do they have some type of
> check to see if I am running RedHat before Connector will run ?
>
> Confused...
>
> --
> James D. Freels, Ph.D.
> jdfreels@comcast.net or freelsjd@ornl.gov
> mplayer -cache 100 http://wdvx.microcerv.net/wdvx
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