A press release may be required but could have just been a more celebratory one, congratulating Red Hat. Sure, point out what similarities and differences Canonical offers with Ubuntu but no need for putting Red Hat down. Just seemed like pointless sour grapes.
Standard operating procedure for the enterprise: "our competitor is dead but the field is still alive - our stuff is better anyway and you don't want to be a <BigCo> customer, give us a call".
The prose just feels a bit disjointed, it could have been worded better, but it's absolutely normal to see press releases commenting tne demise of big competitors in a relatively-small space.
> The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL. Container workloads even more so. Moving at the speed of developers means embracing open source in ways that have led the world’s largest companies, the world’s fastest moving startups, and those who believe that security and velocity are best solved together, to Ubuntu.
More like "If you've been on WebSphere for the last 20 years and your architecture team is starting to move to AWS, don't think the IBM acquisition means you should use RHEL containers."
Juju is Canonical trying to play catchup after years betting on the wrong tech direction.
I'm not an Ubuntu hater - I've been a devoted user since ~'06. But one can't deny that RH made better business decisions over the last decade, by not chasing the "windows killer" dragon.
I don't disagree on the overall argument, but Juju is as old as openshift -- it just failed to get traction.
It seems like Ubuntu people are pretty good at coming up with usable tech, but pretty bad at fostering overall adoption of their solutions. Pretty much all their "ecosystem" projects have failed, even where the alternative wasn't particularly loved (upstart vs systemd). They desperately need better evangelists -- but they won't get them, as long as they ignore my job application ;)
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 44.7 ms ] threadA press release may be required but could have just been a more celebratory one, congratulating Red Hat. Sure, point out what similarities and differences Canonical offers with Ubuntu but no need for putting Red Hat down. Just seemed like pointless sour grapes.
The prose just feels a bit disjointed, it could have been worded better, but it's absolutely normal to see press releases commenting tne demise of big competitors in a relatively-small space.
> The decline in RHEL growth contrasted with the acceleration in Linux more broadly is a strong market indicator of the next wave of open source. Public cloud workloads have largely avoided RHEL. Container workloads even more so. Moving at the speed of developers means embracing open source in ways that have led the world’s largest companies, the world’s fastest moving startups, and those who believe that security and velocity are best solved together, to Ubuntu.
I have a similar business to sell, show me your 10 figures offer and let's talk.
I'm not an Ubuntu hater - I've been a devoted user since ~'06. But one can't deny that RH made better business decisions over the last decade, by not chasing the "windows killer" dragon.
It seems like Ubuntu people are pretty good at coming up with usable tech, but pretty bad at fostering overall adoption of their solutions. Pretty much all their "ecosystem" projects have failed, even where the alternative wasn't particularly loved (upstart vs systemd). They desperately need better evangelists -- but they won't get them, as long as they ignore my job application ;)