On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 07:37:27PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > During the Solutions Linux expo in Paris, the DD's present at the > Debian booth have been approached by a representative from Trend Micro > Corp. who develops and sells security software (the most well known > being probably a virus scanning software and such similar software > suites). > > We ended with a very interesting and long discussion with their > Product Manager for Client/Server messaging products about the proper > way for them to support Debian. > > It seems that such support is a growing request from their customers > (some of them being important Ministries in France and probably others > worldwide) who use big farms of Debian-based servers. > > As far as I have understood, supporting Debian for this vendor is a > real concern, but they fail to be sure in who to get in touch with for > technical issues regarding the compatibility of their products and our > distribution in general (which includes direct interaction with the > Linux kernel, as far as I have understood from him). > > Their concernes was also deciding about *which* release of Debian they > should support. Though question as one may imagine because just > answering "thou shalt use stable" is obviously not enough. From > discussions I previously had with other visitors at the booth, he > concluded by himself that focusing their developers on sarge would > probably be a better investment than trying to support woody (this is > still a matter of months of development, so hopefully sarge will have > been released then). > > Would any people around have pointers which could be given to such > people ? Do we already have an entry point for such technical issues > as proprietary SW vendors needing technical information about the way > to support Debian ?
It isn't clear to me what sort of compatibility issues you would be talking about. Is this an x86 thing? Or a release thing? I've been under the impression that the only machine-level incompatibilities are really kernel and driver issues and not issues with Debian per se. Can you be a little more specific? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]