Linux rules the Clouds

[Basil Chupin]

Color me surprised. I knew that Linux, while still only a niche player 
on the desktop, was continuing to do well on the server and was doing 
even better than ever on the cloud. What I hadn't realized was just 
/how/ much better Linux, and in particular, Canonical 
<http://www.canonical.com>'s Ubuntu, <http://www.ubuntu.com> was doing 
on in the market place.

Before I'd seen The Cloud Market's analysis of operating systems 
<http://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_platform_definition> on Amazon 
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) <http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/>, off the cuff I 
would have guessed the leading operating system on the top cloud 
platform would have been Red Hat <http://www.redhat.com> and its close 
relatives, CentOS <http://www.centos.org>, Oracle Enterprise Linux 
<http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html>, and Fedora 
<http://fedoraproject.org>. Boy was I wrong.

Today, December 20th, Ubuntu is running 4,840 instances on EC2, followed 
by CentOS, with 1,250, Fedora with 313; Oracle with 80; and Red Hat with 
a mere 73 instances. That's a grand total of 1,716 for the Red Hat 
family, which means that Ubuntu is doing more than twice as well as all 
the Red Hat variants put together.


http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-rules-the-clouds/7982

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