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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."
Isn't Debian 3 already certified? So ubuntu which is based on Debian shouldnt be hard.
I recently started playing with Ubuntu after seeing it climb to #1 on distrowatch.com, and I must say, very nice. Made me switch from Mandriva, and I wont touch Gentoo again after this. SuSE seems a little more polished, but debian has more packages.
Also think I'll dump gentoo, really liking having all the packages I need and not compiling. Going to try sparc debian tomorrow at work, kinda interested to see how the install goes.
You'll be back with Gentoo, you'l be back...
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How important are these kinds of certifications really? I assume they are really just a fancy way of saying "we support our software on this platform and are prepared to sell support and consulting services for our system running on it". If $LARGE_CORP decides to run, say, db2 on a system that isn't certified, wouldn't IBM be happy to take their money for support and such anyway - probably with an added surcharge due to the lack of certification, but on the other hand with a rebate for being $LARGE_CORP rather than $SMALL_FRY?
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
How many of us have family that dont play games but are computer illiterate? So many distros have managed to meet the criteria for a so-called perfect OS alternative. Ubuntu is it... or if you dont think its it, it will be. Near perfect project management and one of the best foundations to build on, Ubuntu isn't going anywhere. Good job IBM, here's a cookie. While I'm not staying away from gentoo or my flavor of slack(SLAMD64! w00t,) I will be putting more fear in the eyes of my WinONLY friends just because I know finally I can provide them with an alternative that can relate to them. While Novell and RedHat has done a great job, I think Ubuntu will be the open source monster that most of us have been waiting for. Who woulda thunk it! With a name like Ubuntu!
At this point, I've been having so many dependency issues with apt and yum, that 70% of the time, I end up compiling from source anyway. So I'm in fact moving to Gentoo. I'm sure it won't be a paneaca of all my dependency ills, but the way things stand I'm practically running a custom compiled system anyway.
May the Maths Be with you!
because distributions and vendors should be targeting the Linux Standards Base. IMO announcements like this are a step back for standards and remind me of the days we were hearing similar statements from RedHat.
MySQL is what everybody should be moving to anyways. We only have DB2 on a server because somebody else's crappy product only works with it.
Now all we need is to get Wiki support for DB2 on Amiga.
Are you...Are you some kind of genius?
No, ma'am, I'm just a regular Slashdot reader.
Except I've a horrible feeling you're probably serious.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Holy cow you mods are such weenies. You're killing Next Up with overrated. What is this? A coup? Are you jealous because I started claiming IP before you even thought of it?
What gives? Bunch of weirdos... all of you.
*blows you a big fat raspberry*
Don't think I haven't watched you do this before. You're so childish that it's amusing each and every time.
fast as fast can be. you'll never catch me.
And this:Wrong: All Ubuntu releases, including the first one, was based on Debian Unstable.
You know, Microsoft's street address also says a lot about their mentality.