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Ubuntu certified for IBM's DB2
Canonical Ltd. has announced that
Ubuntu has achieved IBM certification that DB2 Universal Database for Linux
operates in the Ubuntu environment. In addition to the core Ubuntu system,
the certification includes the KDE-based Kubuntu and the education focused
Edubuntu.
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Ubuntu certified for IBM's DB2 Posted Nov 9, 2005 1:13 UTC (Wed) by scotdb (guest, #3170) [Link] This is extremely significant for us DB2 people, as it is the first time IBM has certified installing DB2 on a non-RPM based platform.
I wrote an article for IDUG Solutions Journal way back in 2003 showing how to install DB2 on Debian (and without the graphical Java-based installer) -
http://www.scotdb.com/downloads/DB2V8SpecialInstall.pdf
I also notice that they are now supporting DB2 for development on SuSE 10, and other non "server" distros. That's another significant step forward.
Ubuntu certified for IBM's DB2 Posted Nov 9, 2005 3:15 UTC (Wed) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] Who told you that suse 10 is not a server distro? It's a full-blown server distro, with full desktop support as well, so you can use it as a power user desktop, or a headless server in the data center with equal ease.
Ubuntu certified for IBM's DB2 Posted Nov 9, 2005 13:07 UTC (Wed) by scotdb (guest, #3170) [Link] That is why I put "server" in quotes !!! It took a lot of prodding of IBM by a lot of users like myself for them to realise that it wasn't just the distros with "Enterprise" in the title which people wanted to run DB2 on.
While you may want to run SLES9 or RHEL4 if you are running a big production DB2 server, for development servers and developer workstations most people will want to run DB2 on something, to put it bluntly, less costly and more up to date.
Personally I've run DB2 happily on various Red Hat and SuSE versions, Debian and Ubuntu and I've even come across folks who run it on Gentoo.
But its good to know that my two "distros of choice" (SuSE 10 and Kubuntu) are now officially supported. And Kubuntu is my "server" (running web and email for my domains).
Phil Nelson
Ubuntu certified for IBM's DB2 Posted Nov 9, 2005 20:09 UTC (Wed) by bbialek (guest, #33744) [Link] Phil,
the subject about "supporting" various distributions is actually very easy. It is impossible to support a customer for a mission critical Linux system if the customer has no "support contract" for the operating system. Distributions like the new OpenSuse 10 are not supportable int he usual terms through Suse. This is not a decision by the vendors - not DB2.
But we try to do our best to hit as much distributions as possible to qualify them.
Ubuntu certified for IBM's DB2 Posted Nov 9, 2005 4:53 UTC (Wed) by denials (subscriber, #3413) [Link] A complete list of the distros that IBM has validated as being officially supported by DB2 Versio 8.2 is available at http://ibm.com/db2/udb/linux/validate -- and Ubuntu 5.04 is indeed on the list. This makes IBM, I believe, the first database vendor to offer official production-level support on Ubuntu.
MySQL, interestingly, doesn't even list Ubuntu as a distribution on their platform support page: http://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms.html
IBM's DB2 Validated Platforms Page Posted Nov 30, 2005 14:12 UTC (Wed) by sladen (guest, #27402) [Link] A better (working...) link to the IBM DB2 Validation page is:
Ubuntu certified for IBM's DB2 Posted Nov 9, 2005 4:59 UTC (Wed) by wilreichert (subscriber, #17680) [Link] I was just excited when they finally updated the installer to use a JDK that didn't segfault on a recent glibc with native threading enabled. Sure theres work arounds and response file installs, but I'm lazy.
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