SupportingMarketTechnologies

Revision 1 as of 2005-10-08 18:03:49

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Summary

Ubuntu support for common market technologies. Making Ubuntu an official certified platform for software products from respective vendors. (IBM, Oracle etc..)

Rationale

As Ubuntu is becoming more spread, and as the next release is going to be supported for a longer period and cater for enterprise installations and usage, we need to make Ubuntu a rocking platform for using enterprise grade software products like DB2, Oracle 10g/9i and more. Other distributions like RHEL and SLES do support a range of this software selection. In order to become competition, we have to support those as well.

Use cases

* Joe is a DBA in a big organizatoin using IBM's DB2 to store and manage the organization's online store data. He is currently using RHEL3 as the platform running DB2 server on top. He would like to switch to Ubuntu, due to it's wide selection of software and ease of software management. However Ubuntu is not a supported platform for DB2.

* Kate is developing a web application that is going to pull data of her comapny's Oracle 10g server, she's currently restricted to using SLES9 at work, but at home where she does most of the development, she would like to be able to test her changes against a local Oracle database before testing against the master db. She really likes Ubuntu, but Oracle currently support only RHEL3/SLE9.

Scope

Design

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion