Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Trivia Question - Further Observation

Hi Alexander,

Alexander Thurgood wrote (29-05-11 09:58)

> - if you want "enterprise stability" in LibreOffice, the advice I have
> been given and told to disseminate is to take out a support contract
> with one of the more general enterprise support providers (Novell, Suse,
> RedHat, Ubuntu ?, others ?) which are specifically offering LibreOffice
> support ;
> [...]
> An example : can anyone point me to a webpage from the Foundation or the
> LibreOffice.org site where it clearly states that LibreOffice is not
> intended for business use or that if you are a business you should buy
> support ?

Well, some weeks (ago?) I've seen passing some discussion about this 
(not followed details).
But to me it looks as a misinterpretation.
- yes, support contracts are important, because also that generates 
revenues for the companies sponsoring developers of LibreOffice;
- no, a support contract will not in general guarantee 'enterprise 
stability', because... what ís 'enterprise stability'?

IMO the initial remark from Michael Meeks was to indicate that when you 
want to be rather sure (...) that specific fixes are done or features 
realized, you are welcome to do it yourself, have someone doing it 
(after all it is open source) or get a support contract that gives the 
right for fixing an amount of issues.
So if an enterprise relies on specific features, it can simpley wait for 
the moment that is happens ... but probably it is not the most logic choice.

Regards,
Cor


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