Ubuntu resources vs. quality

Posted May 11, 2011 13:49 UTC (Wed) by jmalcolm (subscriber, #8876)
In reply to: Ubuntu resources vs. quality by drag
Parent article: Ubuntu cloud chief beats CTO to exit door (The Register)

I think the disagreement comes on assumptions of who the customers should be. The audience you have identified needs these things. The other poster is saying that, since Ubuntu cannot profitably compete in those areas at the moment, they should focus on customers that do not require them.

It sounds like you believe that "all" potential customers require these things. Others disagree.

Ubuntu resources vs. quality

Posted May 11, 2011 14:01 UTC (Wed) by Cato (guest, #7643) [Link] (2 responses)

Agreed - since the enterprise desktop Linux market is quite small and mostly covered by Red Hat, it makes more sense for Ubuntu to target other markets such as (perhaps) consumer and developer desktops/laptops/netbooks, enterprise servers, and cloud servers.

The main reasont to target consumer/developer client hardware is to "do a Microsoft" whereby people use Ubuntu at home or as their preferred development environment, creating pressure for it to be used as a production server environment for enterprise or cloud. In reality the client and server segments don't have that much to do with each other, but this "home to work pressure" does happen, and probably explains why Ubuntu is now commonly offered by Xen-based VPS providers.

Ubuntu resources vs. quality

Posted May 11, 2011 16:08 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

"home to work" is what got RedHat to be big in the datacenter. Since they have abandoned the home end of this (and no, I don't think that Fedora is a good replacement, it's too bleeding edge), the door is open for another distro to move in.

so far Ubuntu seems to be doing a good job of moving into the home space, and I think we are just starting to see the effect of this in the server space (mostly in the cloud options as noted)

Ubuntu resources vs. quality

Posted May 11, 2011 18:23 UTC (Wed) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]

_The_Innovator's_Dilemma_ is worth reading. :)