Techworld.com - Red Hat and IBM join hands for Linux certification

Red Hat and IBM join hands for Linux certification I haven't had much time to look over this article, but i still wanted to put something up so I can remember to come back and look over what is covered here.

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This is for software vendors who are looking to prove their applications work on Linux, and more specifically on all versions of Linux. Linux Pipeline has a follow up article, and LWN has a mention of this piece of news.

I know this blog focuses on skills certification and the job market for those skills, but this is also an important piece of news to keep in mind. Simple put programmers need a way of getting their applications out into the marketplace. It helps if there is a vertification process to verify that their applications work universally on the different flavors Linux.


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It looks like this story has a few more legs to it. Slashdot.org has started a page on this idea and most of thepeople here say it is a good idea for the long term Linux movement. This will make it easier for developers to provide applications that are certified for any Linux vendor.