Into the enterprise server Ubuntu Ready?
March 8, 2010 0 Comments
Every point of view, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the undisputed leader, but Ubuntu is proving it can meet this challenge. With the desktop side of good reputation and a strong influence, Ubuntu is a step by step into the commercial server, with strong competition from Red Hat launched, I believe the time for businesses to assess the Ubuntu will come.
And of you, like many others, I had knowledge of the enterprise Linux market, has also been a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a leader no doubt, but Novell's Suse occupy a place in the slightly distant second place. This idea continued until the last year, in May, I read Eclipse Survey 2009 findings and the discovery of two very interesting statistics on Linux, which helped me to reconsider this view.
I was surprised to find in the survey, nearly 15% of the developers of the Eclipse development environment, replied that they are using Ubuntu, I wanted the user experience of this thanks to Ubuntu than Fedora / RHEL or OpenSuse / Suse is better than some of , because the user interface, after all, Canonical made a great effort some of the. But then I realized that the answer to the respondents view, Ubuntu in the server market, performance is just as good. Fedora / RHEL, though still leading the market, but only a slight lead of one percentage point only Ubuntu. While revenue and shipments in perspective, according to IDC estimates, Red Hat is still represented by at least a more than 60% of the Linux market share.
With regard to the adoption of the amazing truth of Ubuntu
Since then, I have been forcing their eyes attention to the Ubuntu in the enterprise sector's growth. Earlier this week, I found the famous film digital effects studio Weta Digital - their works include "Affan up," "9th district," "Mind the transmitter" There are "Lord of the Rings" - a big the scale of the use of Ubuntu. Dustin Kirkland, from Canonical's Ubuntu Server a core developers in the community conversation Linux.conf.au 2010 wrote the following:
"They have a great data center, can today's blockbuster production needs of special effects. Data Center has a 2 PB of disk arrays, 10Gbps network and 35,000 core (more than 4000 more than HP's blade servers), even if this still need 48 hours to render their image sequences. "
"Ubuntu is the core of all this, run all of the rendering nodes, as well as Weta Digital 90% of the desktop." Kirkland pointed out that his farm (which he called "rendering the wall") is actually an Ubuntu Server farm, rather than come to Since Red Hat's products, and some media reports that said not the same.
Weta Digital's data center is quite impressive, especially in the green data center practice. Not difficult to see, Ubuntu is running for Weta Digital's work can be divided into enterprise-level.
"Every day there are 10000, among other things, an estimated 1300000-1400000 tasks to be completed. These 24 frames per second, each frame contains a film director and actor's efforts to spend many hours playing it."
Canonical's strategy is to continue the strong development of the client desktop Ubuntu, this area can no longer get involved in Red Hat. However, from Eclipse, the use of surveys and Weta Digital effects appear, as a server operating system, Ubuntu has also been ignored.
Software vendors who should start the certification of Ubuntu
When you consider in your enterprise adoption of Ubuntu as a server operating system, particularly when there is no doubt that you will have good reason for concern about how its support for enterprise applications. In the current circumstances RHEL has a much higher position than the Ubuntu environment and mechanisms for software developers, which means that compared to Ubuntu, the enterprise applications more easily in RHEL for testing and certification.
However, with the growth of Ubuntu, and Novell Suse uncertainties, business-oriented software vendors will no longer delay the certification of Ubuntu, and this will help Ubuntu quickly into a successful business area.





















































