Hi :)
Thanks for your kind words :)
Simplest answer is grab the 3.4.6 now if you don't already have LO on your
system.
If you already have LO then wait 4 weeks until the release of 3.5.5 on the 8th
July or else just test-drive 3.5.4 for yourself and decide for yourself.
Annoyingly there isn't really a simple Y/n type answer. It depends what you
need it for, what functionality you want and all that sort of thing. Is a
spoon better than a fork? That type of thing. It's a bit like watching tennis
or going to a pantomime at the moment! ("Oh yes it is", "Oh no it isn't")
In both previous branches the .4 was when the branch suddenly settled down a
LOT and became a LOT more stable. Unfortunately we wont know for certain until
tons of people have been using it for a while. We can't read the future! Tons
of people have been using the 3.4.6 for quite a few weeks with very few
grumbles reaching this list.
I guess each "sub-point release" is kinda like half a "Service Pack". So,
3.5.4 is like saying 3.5 with SP2. Of course LO fans would say that each
sub-point release is like a whole Service Pack so it's like 3.5 SP4 but in
terms of comparing with other projects where SP2 is about where the project
becomes stable i would say that it's the .4 in LO. But we haven't really
quantified this objectively yet. It just seems to be the way it's playing out
so far.
Base still doesn't seem to have many people working on it. TDF's BoD seem to
have too many other issues to worry about and still haven't grabbed the
steering-wheel and taken charge. They are still unwilling to put any resources
or imagination into sorting it out. At the moment their plan for it is to
sit&wait to see if one of our supporter companies (Redhat, Google, Canonical
etc) magically becomes interested and starts sorting it.
Regards from
Tom :)
--- On Mon, 4/6/12, Pertti Rönnberg <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Pertti Rönnberg <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, 4 June, 2012, 15:25
Dear you LibO folks,
I have now wasted a lot of time reading some 30 mails in this thread - it was
of no use because most of them did not
handle neither give an answer to the original very relevant question: "Is
3.5.4 ready for business users?"
So, what is the conclusion - if there is any?
Is 3.5.4. ready for business use, or not -- if not, what version is then in
every way at least as or more reliable as e.g. MSOffice& MSAccess?
> the MSO's license fees are peanuts compared with lost efficiency (and
>costs) if a company's office personnel must struggle with LibO's bugs and
>issues many hours many days per week per month -- and the company has to
>employ or buy some extra it-resources for that (and fixing new problems
>coming with new versions every 'second day')
> no company can afford bad quality or inflexibility in communication with
>customers caused by a not-working office program (LibO?)
> MSO is no doubt the 90% market leader and is most certainly used by any
>company's most important customers/contacts -- and the rest 10% will follow
>the majority every time they have to
Three weeks ago in another thread I put an similar question asking what is the
best LibO version today for a private/home user -- a home user does not have
it-experts or own skills in programming to rely on but has the same need of a
troublefree program.
Thanks to Tom and Andreas for their kindness to answer; but neither of them
gave me an exact recommendation: "that version is what you need"!
Perhaps that 'business ready version' of LibO could be the one for me too.
If there is no such a reliable version (not for business nor for home) then
stop developing for a while and make one: better to have a perfectly well
working program with less features than one with plenty of fantastic features
that does not work and that produces problems already when being installed!
Please, start with fixing Base!
Regards
Pertti Rönnberg
On 4.6.2012 3:49, Andreas Säger wrote:
> Am 04.06.2012 00:59, Tom Davies wrote:
>>
>> Andreas' and e-letter's answer is to tell people that to use LO they must
>> stop communicating with anyone that uses MS Office, so that is all their
>> customers and clients, their colleagues, their boss and people that work for
>> them, their family and friends.
>>
>
>
> Are you going to start a flame war against me? Be careful, pal. Your
> assertion is without any substance.
>
>
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