Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle

Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle by dignan on Friday October 21, 2011 @11:54AM (#3140317)

Makes sense to me, but do they have any/many corporate customers? I'd imagine the expense of maintaining a distro branch over time grows super-linearly.

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Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle by ootachi on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:22PM (#3140473)

It's right there in the article:

"The company's statement cites Qualcomm and the city of Munich as examples of organizations that have conducted large-scale Ubuntu desktop rollouts."

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Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle by dignan on Friday October 21, 2011 @12:34PM (#3140529)

Somehow missed that, thanks :)

As a side note, it's interesting to point out that Red Hat has long held that they're not really interested in the desktop market [1], so it's good to see a Linux distro make a play in the corporate desktop space.

[1] - http://ostatic.com/blog/red-hat-still-doesnt-need-desktop-li...

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Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle by endeavor on Friday October 21, 2011 @01:16PM (#3140718)

No, but that's the point. The 3 year product support cycle scares away corporate customers. Most CIOs don't want to be forced to do a hardware refresh before it's absolutely necessary.

I assume the majority of the corporate desktop users are developers who also use Ubuntu as a server platform. E.g. me.

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Re:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get extra-long desktop support cycle by cpeterso on Friday October 21, 2011 @06:45PM (#3142054)

Google uses "Goobuntu" on its desktops, but I'm not sure if they pay for Ubuntu support or just do it themselves.

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