On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 17:34 +0000, Paul Mooring wrote:
As a side note, I do think it's justifiable to worry about the future of Linux if the well-funded distros focus on consumers. Linux's server market share is massive, it's desktop market share not so much. The
more we rally around systems that facilitate desktops and get in the way on servers the less advantageous it is for the people paying for Linux development to keep doing so.
Not sure if you're implying this about Ubuntu or not, but FYI either way.
Canonical's work on Ubuntu is broadly broken into two pieces, server and client. This is from the CEO on down. There are several groups that step between those two (really oversimplified) categories. Personally, I work on the Client side of the company,
so anything I say will be biased towards that. That doesn't mean those server guys aren't working hard to make Ubuntu a great server as well. We also don't separate out desktop in any meaningful way, it's all client, converged from desktop to tablet to phone.
Regardless of how you feel about Enterprise Linux without Red Hat (the company) success we would be years behind where we are right now.
Red Hat has make a large wake for other Open Source companies to grow and thrive in, especially in the enterprise markets. It's awesome.
Ted