LinuxCon: A Look at the Changing Linux Landscape

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 19, 2011

“Red Hat and SUSE, according to Lyman, are strong in the x86
commodity market and have their own areas of strength, but a common
weakness – being slow to cloud computing. Lyman said
Canonical has been faster to address the cloud, and cited its
bundling of Eucalyptus and OpenStack, and asserted that Ubuntu is
popular with developers for cloud deployments.

A common perception is that Red Hat and SUSE are threatened by
“unpaid” or community Linux distributions. There’s something to
that, said Lyman, but not a great dea


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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