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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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