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: > Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:52:44 -0400 > User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 > Cc: Victor Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status: RO > X-Status: Q > X-KMail-EncryptionState: > X-KMail-SignatureState: > X-KMail-MDN-Sent: > > 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. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mplayer -cache 100 http://wdvx.microcerv.net/wdvx > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
