[SLL] Sun Now Leaning Towards Ubuntu...

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 08:55 -0700, Glenn Stone wrote:
>  > Dunno why you'd want to do that; DebUbuntu has a perfectly adequate package
>  > manager alreddie.  And (finally!) with cryptographic verification even.
>
>  For the same reason you'd use apt on a RH/Fedora system.  Familiarity
>  with the tool, when all you care about is packages, not what the
>  underlying packaging /format/ is.

Which is why PackageKit is such a great idea.

Personally, I love all the Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu/SuSE
competition going, especially since a lot (unfortunately not all) fixes are
getting upstream and helping everyone. And, political pundits aside, there
is still some truth to that saying about no such thing as bad publicity.

My personal unscientific prediction is that large orgs are going to
continue with
EL or SLES paid support, and that shops with just a couple of servers will go
to Canonical because they've heard it's "easy" and they are uncomfortable with
the Enterprisey Feel that you get looking at from http://www.redhat.com/
In that case all Canonical needs is call center staff and a few decent
engineers with good people skills.