LXer: Canonical's Quest for Greatness

LXer · 04-11-2012, 03:10 AM

Published at LXer:

"We announced in November that we would be taking Ubuntu to a lot of new devices," said Peter Goodall, product manager for Canonical. "We've been very popular in the PC desktop and server space. We have done really well. We realized that to take Ubuntu into the next generation, we needed to move beyond the traditional PC and server and move into devices like tablets, TVs and even cars."

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TobiSGD · 04-11-2012, 06:15 AM

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Ubuntu has not only been one of the leading desktop Linux OSes, but also recently dethroned Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) Linux Enterprise (RHEL) as the leading server OS in the enterprise.

It is really hard for me to believe that. Has anybody some numbers on that, I couldn't find a reliable source on the net.

cascade9 · 04-11-2012, 06:19 AM

I wondered the same thing. I doubt its true.

TobiSGD · 04-11-2012, 06:33 AM

Well, i found this, but this is for web servers only and I think that they are not counting only enterprise websites, but also the ones hosted from private persons. Many hosters of virtual servers give you Ubuntu as a choice for the OS and I think many people that use Ubuntu at home prefer to use it for their servers (may also apply for small businesses).
But nonetheless web servers are only a small part of a companies server infrastructure. Another high flying wish of Shuttleworth?

cascade9 · 04-12-2012, 08:00 AM

Have you looked at the comments TobiSGD?

Quote:

"Ubuntu has not only been one of the leading desktop Linux OSes, but also recently dethroned Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) Linux Enterprise (RHEL) as the leading server OS in the enterprise."

Sorry, but citation needed for that one. I see absolutely no evidence of this, beyond a remarkably misleading claim about webservers (which is hardly an enterprise workload).

I'll grant you the the statement about desktop usage though.

In this I assume you're basing this statement on Mark's blog (IIRC) entry?
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1072

Even the comments on that are quite clear about the fact that it only measures webserver usage.

There's an interesting analysis of it here (if you're interested):

http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterpri...ntus-enter.php

Disappointing, really. I'd expect some actual research to back up a statement like that.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/boa...1#message_5988

TobiSGD · 04-12-2012, 08:24 AM

Wow. Debian is part of the Ubuntu eco-system? Does that mean that Ubuntu is part of the Mint ecosystem? And a shift in marketshare for OSes used on webservers does mean that there is a general shift in usage of OSes in enterprises?
That man flies so high that he lost touch with reality and believes his (and his marketing department's) "visions" to be true. I don't know if that is sad or funny. I tend to think it is sad.

cascade9 · 04-15-2012, 06:47 AM

Its just martketing and spin. Nothing new there, standard canonical.