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Ubuntu Receives IBM DB2 Certification
Khakionion writes "Ubuntu has announced their recent certification for IBM's DB2 Universal Database for Linux. Quite a big step for Ubuntu towards becoming one of the heavyweights of the Linux world." From the announcement: "With an respected product like DB2 on Ubuntu, our partners will relish the chance to discuss database and solution choices with their clients."
"because distributions and vendors should be targeting the Linux Standards Base"
Why they should?
1/ LSB's only benefit is with respecting binary closed source software. But there're no sign that closed source vendors are going to support LSB at all: there's almost no software that officially support say LSB 1.0, and even when a company won't tell you they support Red Hat, but Red Hat ES 3.0 for instance.
2/ Last I reviewed we were on a capitalist society, thus no company should be doing nothing (not legally bound to) but trying to maximize profit. The day companies see targeting LSB is a way for maximizing profit, don't worry, they'll do.