Red Hat has bright out at competitor Canonical. The opensourcebedrijf states that the Ubuntu developer selective statistics recounted at the claim that it is the most popular distro for servers that have public websites serve.
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth claimed three weeks ago that Ubuntu is rapidly gaining popularity and that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux has passed in serving the public websites. It based the Ubuntu-foreman on statistics from W3Techs. According to Shuttleworth, the differences between Ubuntu and RHEL in sectors like cloud computing is even greater, but are more difficult to measure.
Scott Crenshaw, vice president of Red Hats cloudtak, states in an interview with The Inquirer that Canonical selective shopping. Large businesses choose according to Creshaw faster for Red Hat, because of the better support would provide, and in addition, hundreds of millions of dollars investing in self-written software which also support can deliver.
Crenshaw further states that Red Hat, which recently has a turnover of more than a billion dollar managed to achieve a solid revenue model has built up. Canonical would on the other hand with subsidies in life must be taken by the wealthy Shuttleworth, because it’s not a business model. Also would be Canonical too little to invest in the development of their own software.
Canonical wanted to not comment on the criticism from Red Hat. However, it is clear that the company, that burden would be to have a ‘consumentenimago’, are increasingly focused on the business market, for example through its support for Openstack. In addition, Canonical high expectations of Ubuntu 12.04, a long term support release for servers and desktops in which more proprietary business software is included.