Ubuntu News
Published by: Codrut Nistor, in News
August9th2008
No matter what some or others may say, Linux is not user friendly yet, believe me! It doesn't matter if we're talking about Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian or another of those many Linux distros available at this time, I am sure there's none good enough for the average Windows user who doesn't want to spend a single minute learning something new about his computer or his OS(I know a lot of people using IE simply because they are not willing to change it with something better, not because they don't know something better is available). Anyway, we're not going to talk about an entire crowd of Linux versions, because there's some interesting news about Ubuntu some of you may be interested in...
In a speech at the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, analyst Jay Lyman of the 451 Group said that companies are getting more and more into free, community-driven Linux distributions, instead of choosing commercial offerings with conventional support options. One of the main reasons seems to be the cost of support services from the major distributions, since most companies using Linux internally on a large scale have enough resources to handle all critical needs, so support from the likes of Red Hat or Novell is being rendered useless.
According to Lyman, Europe is moving faster than US, since CentOS and Ubuntu are gaining more followers in corporate environments and data centers there. "In Europe there is a greater propensity to consider something that is not from a traditional vendor," he said.
In the end, it seems that the greater adoption of Ubuntu in commercial environments is "not a flash in the pan," since the 451 Group analyst thinks "For Shuttleworth, Ubuntu isn't just a business mission, it's a personal mission."
The difference between "now" and "then" is that, these days, an entire generation of Linux system administrators have all the information required to get better than ever before, and information means power. That should be enough to make Linux go higher than before, especially since Microsoft...you know the story!
In a speech at the LinuxWorld expo in San Francisco, analyst Jay Lyman of the 451 Group said that companies are getting more and more into free, community-driven Linux distributions, instead of choosing commercial offerings with conventional support options. One of the main reasons seems to be the cost of support services from the major distributions, since most companies using Linux internally on a large scale have enough resources to handle all critical needs, so support from the likes of Red Hat or Novell is being rendered useless.
According to Lyman, Europe is moving faster than US, since CentOS and Ubuntu are gaining more followers in corporate environments and data centers there. "In Europe there is a greater propensity to consider something that is not from a traditional vendor," he said.
In the end, it seems that the greater adoption of Ubuntu in commercial environments is "not a flash in the pan," since the 451 Group analyst thinks "For Shuttleworth, Ubuntu isn't just a business mission, it's a personal mission."
The difference between "now" and "then" is that, these days, an entire generation of Linux system administrators have all the information required to get better than ever before, and information means power. That should be enough to make Linux go higher than before, especially since Microsoft...you know the story!
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