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It's been awhile since I blogged. Things have been pretty busy around here. My first couple of blog posts were centered around how we create our enterprise platforms, and one of the things I covered was the combinations of operating system and JVMs, along with databases that we test with. At the start, it was already a pretty good list. Well, in the intervening months since then, we have added considerably more operating system/JVM combinations, and new databases, and I wanted to highlight that here.

With our latest cumulative patch release we have now certified not only the Sun 1.6 JVM, but now also the Oracle (formerly BEA) JRockit 1.6 JVM, HP's HP-UX 1.6 JVM and IBM's 1.6 JVM. The specific versions are as follows:

• Oracle JRockit 1.6.0_05
• HP-UX JDK 1.6.0_01
• IBM JDK 1.6.0 SR1

We have also tested with two versions of IBM's DB2 database. Some of our Big Blue customers really needed this, and we have delivered. The specific database versions and JDBC drivers are as follows:

• IBM DB2 8.2.7 - Universal JDBC Driver v2.10.52
• IBM DB2 9.1 Fixpack 3 - Universal JDBC Driver v.3.1.57

We now have some 54 (44 OS/JVM combinations and 9 database/JDBC Driver combinations) tested combinations in our matrix of certified operating systems, JVMs and databases. While I haven't checked this against our competition, I believe we may have one of the best platform coverages of any middle-ware vendor today. Here is the full list of certified combinations:

1. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86 - Sun JDK 1.6.0_07
2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86 - Sun JDK 1.5.0_15
3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86 - Oracle JRockit 1.6.0_05
4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86 - Oracle JRockit 1.5.0_08
5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86 - IBM JDK 1.6.0 SR1
6. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86 - IBM JDK 1.5.0 SR6
7. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86_64 - Sun JDK 1.6.0_07
8. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86_64 - Sun JDK 1.5.0_15
9. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86_64 - Oracle JRockit 1.6.0_05
10. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86_64 - Oracle JRockit 1.5.0_08
11. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86_64 - IBM JDK 1.6.0 SR1
12. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - x86_64 - IBM JDK 1.5.0 SR6
13. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5 (latest update) - System Z s390x (64-bit) - IBM JDK 1.5.0 SR5
14. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86 - Sun JDK 1.6.0_07
15. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86 - Sun JDK 1.5.0_15
16. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86 - Oracle JRockit 1.6.0_05
17. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86 - Oracle JRockit 1.5.0_08
18. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86 - IBM JDK 1.6.0 SR1
19. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86 - IBM JDK 1.5.0 SR6
20. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86_64 - Sun JDK 1.6.0_07
21. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86_64 - Sun JDK 1.5.0_15
22. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86_64 - Oracle JRockit 1.6.0_05
23. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86_64 - Oracle JRockit 1.5.0_08
24. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86_64 - IBM JDK 1.6.0 SR1
25. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - x86_64 - IBM JDK 1.5.0 SR6
26. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - Azul - Azul JDK 1.5.0_11
    
27. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - System Z s390x (64-bit) - IBM JDK 1.5.0 SR5
28. Red Hat Enterprise Linux v4 (latest update) - System Z s390x (31-bit) - IBM JDK 1.5.0 SR5
29. Microsoft Windows 2003 - x86 - Sun JDK 1.6.0_07
30. Microsoft Windows 2003 - x86 - Sun JDK 1.5.0_15
31. Microsoft Windows 2003 - x86 - Oracle JRockit 1.5.0_10
32. Microsoft Windows 2003 - x86_64 - Sun JDK 1.6.0_07
33. Microsoft Windows 2003 - x86_64 - Sun JDK 1.5.0_10
34. Microsoft Windows 2003 - X86_64 - Oracle JRockit 1.5.0_08
35. Sun Solaris 10 - Sparc - Sun JDK 1.6.0_07
36. Sun Solaris 10 - Sparc - Sun JDK 1.5.0_15
37. Sun Solaris 10 - x86 - Sun JDK 1.6.0_07
38. Sun Solaris 10 - x86 - Sun JDK 1.5.0_15
39. Sun Solaris 9 - Sparc - Sun JDK 1.6.0_07
40. Sun Solaris 9 - Sparc - Sun JDK 1.5.0_15
41. Hewlett-Packard HP-UX i2 - PA-RISC - HP JDK 1.6.0_01
42. Hewlett-Packard HP-UX i2 - PA-RISC - HP JDK 1.5.0_06
43. Hewlett-Packard HP-UX i2 - ia64 - HP JDK 1.6.0_01
44. Hewlett-Packard HP-UX i2 - ia64 - HP JDK 1.5.0_06

For databases:

1. IBM DB2 9.1 Fixpack 3 - IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Driver v3.1.57
2. IBM DB2 8.2.7 - IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Driver v2.10.52
3. Oracle 10g R2 - Oracle JDBC driver v10.2.0.1
4. Oracle 10g R2 - Oracle JDBC driver v10.2.0.2
5. Oracle 9i - Oracle JDBC driver v10.2.0.1
6. Oracle 9i - Oracle JDBC driver v10.2.0.2
7. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - Microsoft SQL Server 2005 driver v1.1.1501.101
8. MySQL 5 - mysql-connector-java v5.0.7
9. PostgreSQL 8.1 - PostgreSQL v8.2 JDBC3 with SSL (build 504)

In the future look, for even more news on the database front. This picture will continue to get better and better over time, and we even see increasing interest from the vendors to have us do the certification testing, along with the interest from customers.

Happy computing!