[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]
“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’s Ubuntu, was doing on in the market place.“Before I’d seen The Cloud Market’s analysis of operating
systems on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), off the cuff I would
have guessed the leading operating system on the top cloud platform
would have been Red Hat and its close relatives, CentOS, Oracle
Enterprise Linux, and Fedora. 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.”