> The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL. Container workloads even more so. Moving at the speed of developers means embracing open source in ways that have led the world’s largest companies, the world’s fastest moving startups, and those who believe that security and velocity are best solved together, to Ubuntu.
The prose just feels a bit disjointed, it could have been worded better, but it's absolutely normal to see press releases commenting tne demise of big competitors in a relatively-small space.
A press release may be required but could have just been a more celebratory one, congratulating Red Hat. Sure, point out what similarities and differences Canonical offers with Ubuntu but no need for putting Red Hat down. Just seemed like pointless sour grapes.