I do not try to justify anything but express my own personal view that is, by no mean, the absolute true.
There is potentially hundreds of reason for this user to migrate ASAP. This I don't know.
If what triggers migration asap is lack of support from Ubuntu, I'm pretty confident that my sentence makes sense: Canonical will support Ubuntu 10.04 till 2015.
On top of this, I assumed this user is using community edition. So far so good (I'm using this edition too
) but then there is just NO commitment in term of support from Zentyal. So this is not the Zentyal roadmap in term of support that is pushing for migration in a hurry.
Again, perhaps some other reason that I don't know, reason why I was asking "why do you want to migrate?"
As you ask and in order to not let any unspoken assumption grow, I'll try to be even more explicit, even if some may take it the wrong way (I hope they will not
):
1 - there is an obvious - at least to me - trend to always target the very last version or release of every piece of software, from BIOS to end-user application just because this is the new version, quite often without looking at features. When feature are similar or only with bug fix or improvement, I can understand. Unfortunately, there is a huge gap between Zentyal 2.2 and 3.0. Yes, you're right, from end-user standpoint, this is not that huge (aside potentially SSO) but from admin standpoint, you may know what I mean.
So migration is not easy and 3.0 is not yet as stable as 2.2. If you want to go there, from 2.2, relying only on community support, you either do it because you want to give a try (excellent good reason) or because there are some features you do need. Again, therefore my earlier question
2 - the second aspect will be, I know already, more controversial here but I've spent too much time refraining myself to write it many times, and your post triggers it today: I've the very very strong feeling that main goal, for a lot of Zentyal users, is to benefit from Zentyal because this is the
free alternative to Windows domain. These users are not going to support Zentyal as a company buying some official support. Most of them even do not support community by providing help, feedback or support to other community members (I know this behaviour is not specific to Zentyal community) but on the other hand, they do push for "migration asap", "support commitment" and other bells and whistles for free. Here again, not all but a lot do even not look at features. They just want to migrate for the very last version with free "support" and expect to put enough pressure on Zentyal with no business perspective behind. My expectation is that those using community edition and hoping Zentyal to bring something to them should at least use Zentyal "community" in different ways that could be development, community support, clear explanation of users cases, projects or or even needs in term of feature, not needs in term of "I need to migrate ASAP, please Zentyal help !"
3 - last but not least, yes you're right I expect next Zentyal version to fit better market needs. To me, 3.0 missed its target. First I'm not convinced (perhaps I'm wrong) that GPO support is the first must for SMBs. Second, GPO with lack of OU support in the back-end (you know the secondary LDAP server emulating AD
) is pretty useless. So I'm back to my question in term of feature "what is the main trigger from 3.0 migration ?" New comer will of course install 3.0 I'm fine with this. My point is this "migration" step. Is it that critical that it must be done in a hurry ? Can't you wait for next version that will, from technical standpoint, make more sense or do you need something right now? If your answer is SSO, fine, that's a good reason. Measure pros and cons and migrate once your decision is made. If this is for support while using community edition, I'm back to my previous answer:
"so you're not in a hurry
"
I know such long post is not expected here, sorry for this, but it was better, at least for me, to write it once
I will not comment it further
EDIT: some (too many) typos :-(