Linux players bond for business software (News.com) [LWN.net]

Linux players bond for business software (News.com)

Posted Jun 1, 2002 5:34 UTC (Sat) by DeletedUser416 ((unknown), #416)
In reply to: Linux players bond for business software (News.com) by subhasroy
Parent article: Linux players bond for business software (News.com)

I don't know if one absolute standard is necessary, but if it could be reduced to two or three competing standards, it would sure be a lot less of a headache for ISV's then the hodge-podge there is now. But that seems to be happening, anyway. Now we'll have the United Linux standard, the Red Hat/Mandrake standard, and the Debian standard. Still more painful than one standard, but not really substantialy more painful than developing for the various versions of Windows. The market seems to be sorting out the standards issue pretty well by itself. It will just take some time. Some consolodation is inevitable.

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Linux players bond for business software (News.com)

Posted Jun 3, 2002 14:14 UTC (Mon) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Now we'll have the United Linux standard, the Red Hat/Mandrake standard, and the Debian standard.

Well, when everything has been sorted out, and reality has been distilled from all the marketing crap and posturing, it looks like we'll have three dominant implementations (RH/Mdk, UL, and Deb) of a single standard, the LSB. But it's hard to tell for sure, since UL is such a strange thing. From what I can tell their real aim is to create an implementation-based "standard" based on a standard-by-committee (LSB) to compete with Red Hat, the current defacto implementation-based "standard." That's weird.