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Cloudy with a chance of Linux: Canonical aims to cash in

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“Although Ubuntu is generally regarded as a desktop Linux
distribution, the sever variant is becoming increasingly popular in
the cloud. It is silently infiltrating server rooms and gaining
traction in enterprise environments. A recent survey published by
Canonical provides some insight into adoption trends of Ubuntu on
production servers.

“As Ubuntu’s presence in the server space grows, it is showing
up in some unexpected places. Weta Digital, the New Zealand company
that did the special effects for Lord of the Rings and some of the
3D rendering for Avatar, reportedly runs Ubuntu on its 35,000-core
render farm and virtually all of its desktop computers. The
Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the popular Wikipedia
website, rolled out Ubuntu on 400 of its servers in 2008. We even
use Ubuntu ourselves on several of the key servers that power the
Ars Orbiting HQ.”


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