Re: RHE AS miss openoffice.

[Rick Johnson <rjohnson medata com>]

On 7/30/2003 4:19 AM, Eric Hagberg morganstanley com wrote:
> Some people would rather have one build (the size isn't really much
> different at all) that contains everything so that when you create and
> test applications on your desktop/workstation you know for certain that it
> will work and behave the same way it did there as it will on your server
> running AS. They only way to know for sure that will be the case is to
> have a true everything install.

Let me offer one explination where *I* might want all packages on AS:

LTSP - while K12 institutions will probably stick to RHLP, those 
corporations who realize the cost benifit of deploying a single Red Hat 
ES/AS machine and 100 diskless workstations, but want to do so on an 
enterprise product with it's enhanced support and longevity would 
probably want to use Red Hat ES/AS - since I'm not sure the WS product 
would be suitable for serving 100 users in this fashion - though I'm 
sure it could probably be done.

Now if I were to use AS as the platform, but didn't have access to OOo 
(not to mention a current version like 1.1), my user base probably 
wouldn't accept this type of deployment unless I opted to build custom 
packages (which would then lose the benefit of it's support).

Just some food for thought,
-Rick

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