Not so much a certification issue in most cases. It's a source code issue.
Will the vendor give away the source? Samba and Sendmail, etc, are open
source. Cache' isn't. Oracle isn't. Etc. THATS where the problem lies.
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Dave Jousma wrote:
> Thanks all for the responses. For us, this is a chicken and egg thing.
> We are just testing the waters, so to speak, so we are not ready to
> call any vendor(s) to see if they will play in the 390 environment.
> You have answered my question, though. The 3rd party app must
> specify z/series or S390 as a platform, and if not, then it is not
> compatible(at this time).
I know some folk value certification, but I wonder. Some time ago a
local business would not run Oracle on Linux "because it's not
certified."
It was actually available and it ran fine.
Take a look at the software you run:
Is Samba certified?
Is Sendmail/Postfix/Exim?
So far as I know, _none_ of the hardware I run Linux on is certified.
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John.
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