Re: Linux 2.0 and 2.1 stability..
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
31 Oct 1997 21:26:24 GMT
Followup to: <3459E051.A175E074@panoptic.com>
By author: Allanah Myles <dossy@panoptic.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Has Informix actually made a public statement as to why they aren't
> interested in porting to Linux? When I was on the phone with one of
> their tech people, the feeling he gave me was that Linux wouldn't
> be ported to for lack of serious commercial support (as in: if the
> problem is not in Informix's code, they have no way of remedying the
> problem without actually debugging non-Informix code, which they
> are not prepared to do.) Unlike commercial OS's, in which there
> is clearly an organization of people who are financially responsible
> for the product, Linux has no such organization who a commercial
> software vendor can say: "it's a problem in your code," and refer
> the irate customer to bug that vendor's support personnel.
>
That's B.S. All you have to do is to limit your support to one or
more of the commercial distributions, e.g. RedHat or Caldera. They
have that kind of deals with several commercial software vendors
already.
-hpa
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