IBM’s Old Playbook

Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by ilovecaching on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:28PM (#18330496)

I've never seen Ubuntu used in a large enterprise. Redhat dominates the server market. They offer better certification, support, and a package repository geared towards stability and backporting. The seperate Fedora (new a shiny) from RHEL (old and stable).

Ubuntu doesn't really have that distinction. Shuttleworth is also kind of a character, and it's hard to rely on him keeping Ubuntu fixed on a particular use case. It's been desktop, then mobile/desktop convergence, and now containers and Kuberentes. Think startup vs big business.

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Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by jacques_chester on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:03PM (#18332824)

Ubuntu is the default base image for Cloud Foundry, so in fact it's pretty widely embedded in enterprise at this point. But it's an implementation detail, rather than a separate line item on the invoice.

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Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by AlphaSite on Monday October 29, 2018 @11:40PM (#18333873)

Didn’t google use Ubuntu or Debian or something?

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Re:IBM’s Old Playbook by _-david-_ on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @12:22AM (#18333993)

Google originally used Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) but migrated to Debian. They are using a custom version of all their stuff so its probably not really even Debian at this point.

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