It’s not about Canonical’s employee count, and frankly it’s not about Linux - that’s a shrinking revenue base. You’re also ignoring that Ubuntu was the leader in cloud for Linux for many years, mostly due to the lagging kernel releases when things like Docker arose, but also smart marketing moves on their part.

It’s about the apps and the datacenters. The hyperscalers are formidable competitors, so it’s all about OpenShift becoming the new multi-cloud operating system across them.