One big thing Microsoft, Apple, and all CTOs can learn from Ubuntu

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:11 AM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> Ubuntu has earned a reputation as the most user-friendly version of
> Linux on the planet, but I would argue that the secret of success for
> Canonical<http://www.canonical.com/>  (the company behind Ubuntu) is not
> really about a great UI or an extensive hardware compatibility list.

Oh certainly it was not due to GNOME. However, making it easy to install 
binary drivers for NVIDIA certainly is a factor.


>
> What Canonical does really well is to methodically produce incremental
> upgrades to its OS. It is transparent about its goals and plans, and it
> releases its software on schedule. In fact, this incremental approach is
> Ubuntu’s most potent competitive weapon against rivals Microsoft Windows
> and Mac OS X. It is also an approach that CTOs and other IT leaders who
> produce software, Web sites, and other product-based Web services can
> learn from.

If those were quality upgrades then yeah but to have to do the 
equivalent of a dist-upgrade and get yourself hosed or run into problems 
is not entertaining. I would only do this incremental thing on an 
OpenSolaris box and never on an Ubuntu box.