Is there any advantage to upgrading to 10.7 instead of 10.8?

Adobe has upgraded Connect to 9.3.  9.3 unfortunately isn't fully compatible with my OS 10.6.8.  Since I use Connect to tutor students at my online university, I need full functionality.  Adobe told me that Connect 9.3 will work with 10.7 through 10.9, but NOT 10.10.  My choices are either 10.10 for free, or paying $20 to get either 10.7 or 10.8, unless I know someone who downloaded 10.9 and would let me access their account.   Is there any advantage of 10.7 over 10.8, or should I just go to 10.8?  I'm thinking 10.8 will probably last longer before Adobe Connect puts out a version that will require me to upgrade again, but I don't know if there were any advantages of 10.7 over 10.8.  I kept 10.6 because it allows the operation of Rosetta, which allows me access to all the old emails and pieces I wrote in the old AOL for Mac OS X, but I think some of them I'll be able to open in other apps from the finder at least, albeit with a lot of junk symbols that will make them hard to read.  I have to be able to work though, so I need to be able to have full functionality with Adobe Connect, so work trumps personal items I've stored, alas.  Anyway, is there any advantage to picking 10.7, or should I just go to 10.8?

Eric Root wrote:
10.8
Check to make sure your applications are compatible. PowerPC applications are no longer supported after 10.6.      
Application Compatibility
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Do a backup before installing.
Yes, the lack of compatibility with Rosetta is what's kept me at 10.6.8.  I used to save everything in AOL for Mac OS X, both emails and things I'd written, until AOL came out with a completely different application and I realized that eventually I wouldn't be able to run the old AOL.  Before my last upgrade, from 10.5 to 10.6, I thought I was going to lose the old AOL, so I did convert a bunch of files to Word or pdf or both, and more recently I've converted some others, but I have something like 15 years worth of correspondence and other items, so it would be difficult to convert them all.
Thanks for the articles.
Thanks for the backup reminder.  My external hard drive died earlier this week, and so I bought two new ones specifically so that I could backup before upgrading (and so I'd have a backup backup and never be without at least one backup again ). 

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