Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Differences between LibreOffice 3.3 and 3.4

Hi Martin,

Martin Jungowski wrote (18-11-11 15:13)
> Pedro, thank you. The problem is that as an enterprise that sees IT as
> tertiary means of production (as opposed to technology-driven
> enterprises such as Google or Microsoft) we're extremely conservative
> when it comes to software.

Very understandable.

> The latest and greatest is never our first choice, and features
> are a distant fourth to stability, reliability, and dependability.

There also are quite some improvements in 3.4.x regarding stability, 
reliability, speed, interoperability. It's not at all only about features!

> Right now I'm leaning towards the well-established and
> therefore more stable 3.3 release tomsave myself the hassle of new
> features and thus also new bugs.

There will be some new, but as explained most important have been solved.
And older ones have been solved.
This container issue tells about 3.4 fixes:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35673

> Is there a simple comparison between 3.3 and 3.4 that shows what 3.4 is
> capable of that 3.3 isn't? Maybe there's something we really need but
> don't know yet.

Well, the pages that Pedro pointed to.

> Something that'd be worth the extra work and effort
> necessary to deploy 3.4 instead of 3.3?

The whole point in a relatively long support for 3.3.x, is that we do 
not want to force companies to change to a new minor version fast. 
Therefore the bug fix releases were made.

But when you start now, it will be just as easy to start with 3.4.x.
And in a month or two, there will be the 3.4.5
See wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan

> Right now it's more like a
> clusterf*ck of two separate feature sets with no easy way of comparison.

What might be very advisable, if you work for a company, is to consider 
a support contract. That will provide you with the certainty of 
attention for your needs, and thus when relevant needed fixes. On the 
other side for a amount of money that is very modest compared to the 
other choice, you will add value to the future, this sustainability and 
improvement of the software of your choice :-)

Kind regards,

--
 - Cor
 - http://nl.libreoffice.org


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