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Originally Posted by brian  You can continue to build ZCS for PPC via the public source, there were no technical limitations that forced us to stop shipping pre-built binaries. Once we ship a platform for a major release we like to continue support for that platform throughout the lifecycle of that release. We would like to release a leopard build as soon as possible and do not have the cycles to maintain 3 mac builds along with the other 20 odd platform builds we maintain.
In general Network Edition releases will be supported for the greater of 1 year or 2 major ZCS releases and although unsupported the open source version usually follows. Platforms that we ship only an open source version on typically follow at least the 1 year guideline. We typically support the latest OS builds as demand dictates or as we phase out older OS's. Integrating, updating and compiling third party components is very time consuming across the 20 odd platforms we support so we rarely ship more then 2 versions of any one operating system.
I hope this addresses your concerns, for what it's worth I run my personal email on a PPC mac mini, so I understand your disappointment firsthand. |
What's most frustrating about this is that two of our clients bought new G5 towers in mid 2006 (less than two years ago!) and now they can't use the most recent builds of the ZCS (which they pay a good chunk of money for!) without reverting to the FOSS version, which their consultants then have to hand build. Now, I don't mind the extra hours, but it ticks me off no end that they'd lose the automated backups, as well as any other number of issues that relate to support.
Surely I don't have the last two Zimbra clients on PPC machines?
This is deeply upsetting.
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