Linux Foundations for a Complete Customer Orientated Solution
The basis of the planning was to lay the foundation for a Linux that could deliver complete customer orientated solutions – across a range of vendors and suppliers. In essence many of these same vendors were competitors either for product software applications or services. That was both a challenge and a bonus. It was all in their best interests – both from a software flexibility , development and customer satisfaction viewpoint to provide the most stable , flexible and modifiable Linux base platform.
This is the situation that a United Linux framework came into play. The aim of the United Linux project was to address all of these crucial areas of software and customer satisfaction areas of concerns as well as to provide base flexibility and stability of the Linux operating system , systems and applications. Linux had to be all thing to all people and customers as well as provide a most stable , and secure application level standards.
The aim was to provide a mechanism of a single point contact by which IHV’s and ISV’s could get dependent drivers , utilities into a commercial LSB compliant OS implementation.
