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 ? -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
