Building Applications with the Linux Standard Base

The widespread success of a software application is heavily dependent on customers’ confidence in the application. Instilling confidence depends on several factors, including compatibility, portability, and reliability. Compatibility is rapidly becoming a requirement for customers who need applications that run with a wide variety of other applications. Customers are also demanding that applications be written for maximum portability. Customer run applications in many different environments that may include different operating systems and different archtectures, and they do not want to purchase a different version of an application for each environment. Reliability is also an important requirement for customers today. Software applications run everything from bank transactions to hospital information systems, so customers can not afford to use unreliable applications.