Vendors Team on Debian-Based Enterprise Linux

[Vidar Bakke <vb@skolelinux.no>]

Hi
Interesting article on eweek.com

"Vendors Team on Debian-Based Enterprise Linux
The trio of companies is also said to be looking for other Linux 
partners. In particular, companies such as Xandros Inc. that already 
use Debian as the basis for their distributions are said to be being 
approached"

Read more on:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1834943,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1835282,00.asp

Since it's only rumors I think the Mandriva, Turbolinux and enterprise 
LInux are wrong, but the
other stuff makes sense.

The following statement"

Why? Because, he said, "The world doesn't want or need yet another 
'enterprise' Linux distribution. The whole point is to standardize 
around a very limited set of well-qualified, well-known, well-branded 
options so that ISVs have a suitable set of development and deployment 
targets."

is also flawed because what the companies are trying to do is most 
likely to agree to build from Debian, work for LSB compliance, share 
packages and reduce the development cost. Not to create a new 
enterprise disto.
An application vendor can then create one deb package for all distros.



-vb