> tora - Takamichi Akiyama wrote: >> In reality, some users, like my clients, still use 2.4.x for some reasons.
On 2011/04/27 1:15, Marcus Lange wrote: > Really? I'm surprised. To avoid misleading, let me explain why slightly older versions are demanded. It is not for Windows 98. In short, it is a balance between stability and functionality. In a business use case, what I have learned is that they tend to prefer the last minor version to the bland new major version. E.g. 2.4.3 to 3.0.0 and 3.2.1 to 3.3.0. They seems to believe that major version has tendency of regression, such as crash bugs, while the last minor version has been generally, well fixed. Within a middle to huge scale of firms, there is an IT division in it. They don't want a situation where employee A uses version X of OpenOffice.org, B uses version Y, C uses Z. They want all employees to use the same version of OpenOffice.org. Because they want to avoid dumb conversation between employees and staffs in the internal support desk like: "What version of OpenOffice.org are you using? To confirm it, choose xxx menu and, ... What is a problem? ... Yes, we know it. It is an known bug/regression. To fix it, upgrade/downgrade your OpenOffice.org. The instructions can be found ..." The employees are expected to concentrate on their tasks, not to maintain their tools. In other words, the purpose of utilizing OpenOffice.org is to accomplish their daily work, not to enjoy with bland new features. The IT division, which I know, had evaluated 3.0.0, but didn't start migration to 3.0.0 and stayed 2.4.1 at the moment. Efforts to upgrade OpenOffice.org for hundreds or thousands of PCs over the firm is somewhat costly. They do not want to do such things every quarter, but they do it once a year or so. They do the steps quite carefully. A pilot division is chosen and it solely starts migration to the new candidate version of OpenOffice.org. Other divisions stay at the current version of OpenOffice.org. The IT division is evaluating and learning about the new candidate version for weeks or months in collaboration with colleges in the pilot division. Eventually, they propose a migration plan to the board. And then a migration task for the thousands of PCs starts. That is one of the reasons why slightly older versions are demanded, I think. For my clients, there are other reasons. They use OpenOffice.org Linux behind web servers. The most important factor for them is stability rather than functionality. So they still use 2.4.x Linux, which is considered as the most stable version among 2.x series. Just my one cent, Tora -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to dev-unsubscr...@distribution.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@distribution.openoffice.org with Subject: help
