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Azure has been mostly Linux Applications for a while now. Whenever Enterprise wants a contract they almost exclusively think Red Hat. So this makes sense for both of them to team up.I also don't see any fallout in the community because of this.

Since Ubuntu ruling the cloud instances this also makes sense for Red Hat.

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Ubuntu rules cloud instances elsewhere? I almost always see the choices as CentOS or RedHat. But that might be my myopic view cause I am always just looking for those right off the bat.

Ubuntu is usually the first to be offered by most cloud services (especially on free tiers), because its a good compromise between a liberal license, commercial support and light requirements. This gave it a good momentum in some quarters, although I agree that it doesn't really look like "domination".

It would be cool to get numbers across all providers, in terms of deployed instances of this or that OS. There's a good story to write, there.

Ubuntu was made the default instance on EC2 (even though EC2 is built on RHEL/CentOS/XenServer).

That's were Canonical began to gain traction regarding installs, yet they still can't find a way to get users into support contracts en masse like Red Hat has been able to.

> Ubuntu was made the default instance on EC2

Citation needed. If Amazon Linux is still the default, you're wrong. It is based on CentOS, uses RPMs and yum.

I thought that was common knowledge? Amazon Linux is now the default instance, but that was not always the case. Ubuntu enjoyed a huge uptick in "cloud" usage because of EC2.

Amazon Linux is not based on Ubuntu.

(And I edited my comment since the wording was unclear... sorry if that caused confusion)

I think they mean Ubuntu was the default before Amazon Linux was even a thing. As I recall, that's correct, but I don't know where to find a citation on that. Amazon Linux only rolled out to production in 11/2011, so less than half of EC2's life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Machine_Image#Amazon_Li.... It's

Ah, you might be right. I can't find anything in a quick search of archive.org and old press releases, except that Canonical did offer an official Ubuntu AMI pretty far back in the day. Still can't find out what the default EC2 linux was based off though.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-linux-continues-to-rule-...

CentOS / RHEL are non-starters for cutting edge work in machine learning due to their ancient mathematics and scientific libraries

Almost everything else is a non-starter in commercial settings because of their lack of credible support contracts.

Sorry I don't see how. RHEL7 is quite modern, however, you could always get bleeding edge anything with software collections[1], of which Redhat has a blessed set of packages in software collections named the developer toolset[2].

[1] https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/

[2] http://developerblog.redhat.com/tag/developer-toolset/

It depends on what you are going to use it for.

Ubuntu has gotten some solid traction in the "web" end of things, while RH is more "infrastructure".

Msft to buy Red Hat?

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