Office 97 Users Lose Free Support
That's right Steve and Bill - piss off everyone! READ ALL ABOUT IT: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,51565,00.asp Cheers. Curtis :)
Actually, I agree with this. It's old. 4 years old. If you notice SuSE's support supports the current version and one version back..so for example come June 15th..it will support 7.1 and 7.2 .. and at that time 7.0 will fall by the wayside. It's very hard to support software that has out lived it's lifecycle. Some may not agree with this..but then again..I don't care. ;) Current + 1 version back is a pretty good policy. It would be nightmare to support things such as XFree86 3.3.3.1 and try to get a new video card to work..the list goes on. I am also kinda sick to my stomach that I don't disagree with this policy. * Curtis Rey (crrey@home.com) [010604 09:33]: ->That's right Steve and Bill - piss off everyone! ->READ ALL ABOUT IT: ->http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,51565,00.asp -> ->Cheers. Curtis :) -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Ben Franklin
I understand what your saying and for the most part I agree. The thing that burns me ( and I thing other ppl) is they want $350 for an office program that necessitates an upgrade to Wk2/XP if you want it to work at it optimum. Of course if you can pay for online/telelphone support - this is ok too, but at $125/incident it's costly. SuSE's support package seems comprehensive and reasonable cost wise. I just think of all the businesses, corporation, and SOHO's they will have to pay a very high price for an office program and the associated license per copy. Shift the budget arouned "get me accounting", call all the execs for a meeting please. I can just see the VP/Pres/CIO/CTO, etc... looking around to figure out it the cost and new license agreement is worth it. I don't picture alot of happy faces. Just my $0.02 U.S. Cheers. Curtis :) On Monday 04 June 2001 11:47 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Actually, I agree with this. It's old. 4 years old. If you notice SuSE's support supports the current version and one version back..so for example come June 15th..it will support 7.1 and 7.2 .. and at that time 7.0 will fall by the wayside. It's very hard to support software that has out lived it's lifecycle. Some may not agree with this..but then again..I don't care. ;)
Current + 1 version back is a pretty good policy. It would be nightmare to support things such as XFree86 3.3.3.1 and try to get a new video card to work..the list goes on.
I am also kinda sick to my stomach that I don't disagree with this policy.
* Curtis Rey (crrey@home.com) [010604 09:33]: ->That's right Steve and Bill - piss off everyone! ->READ ALL ABOUT IT: ->http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,51565,00.asp -> ->Cheers. Curtis :)
Hello, I deleted all the relevant Project Management posts.... Here is a hopefully helpful Website about Project Management: WWW-Guide to Project Management Research Sites http://www.fek.umu.se/irnop/projweb.html I would also be happy to test the software, please inform about any project on this subject. Tony -- Tony Zafiropoulos CTiTEK, Inc. Supporting Linux one system at a time Ph: 314-726-5080 x101 Fax: 314-726-5085 Cel: 314-504-3974 tonyz@ctitek.com "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln
A search on FreshMeat resulted in this: http://udpviper.com/project.php?project=ipm http://mrproject.codefactory.se/ http://www.phprojekt.com/ http://www.tutos.org/homepage/screens.html I think one of these project management systems ( any one ;) could benefit from the joined forces of those of us that want to help in making a viable alternative/replacement for M$-Project. -tosi
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