<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> 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, <a href="http://www.canonical.com">Canonical</a>’s <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu,</a> was doing on in the market place. Before I’d seen The <a href="http://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_platform_definition">Cloud Market’s analysis of operating systems</a> on <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/">Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)</a>, off the cuff I would have guessed the leading operating system on the top cloud platform would have been <a href="http://www.redhat.com">Red Hat</a> and its close relatives, <a href="http://www.centos.org">CentOS</a>, <a href="http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/index.html">Oracle Enterprise Linux</a>, and <a href="http://fedoraproject.org">Fedora</a>. 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. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-rules-the-clouds/7982">http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/linux-rules-the-clouds/7982</a> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- "Everybody wants to go to Heaven but nobody wants to die." </pre> </body> </html>