FPL steps down: what's the real story?

[Marcel Rieux]

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Sam Sharpe <lists.redhat at samsharpe.net>wrote:

> On 9 April 2010 00:47, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We know that Canonical is strong in cloud computing. Etc. But...
>
> With all due respect, you pulled that line out of your ass and have no
> data to support that. Name me one article in a respected journal that
> says that Canonical or Ubuntu is strong in cloud computing compared to
> other current providers.
>
> I work in this industry and our business keeps an eye on competitors
> and let me assure you, Canonical is not currently a player.
>

Figures are hard to get. Here's how it looks on Amazon's EC2:

http://thecloudmarket.com/stats

http://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_image_owner

http://thecloudmarket.com/stats#/by_platform_definition

Of course, this is no way indicative of the present global situation. Amazon
is only one cloud infrastructure service... but maybe you can see a trend?

Of course, in private clouds, Ubuntu is far from being as big as Red Hat but
it's making strong inroads in public clouds and they offer support for
managing clouds. When companies move from public to private clouds, since
they'll be used to Canonical/Ubuntu (CU) products, do you really think
they'll move to Red Hat?

So, I've certainly thrown this little sentence you're commenting a little
bit too fast. No doubt I should have said something like: "For a small
player, Canonical/Ubuntu shows strong /growth/ in the cloud market."

As to the means CU will soon have to plan its development, see my next
message.

Also see:

http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud/management
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