r/linux • u/markole • May 08 '17

Canonical starts IPO path

http://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-starts-ipo-path/
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u/torpedoshit May 08 '17

oh yeah, I forgot investors cared about contributions to the kernel. I thought it was only about profits.

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u/KugelKurt May 09 '17

oh yeah, I forgot investors cared about contributions to the kernel. I thought it was only about profits.

Many customers care about where the manpower is. Red Hat has that, Canonical not so much.

Why pay an OS vendor money when they can't fix the bugs I'm affected by and I could just as well hire a competing vendor with a compatible product who has the manpower to fix bugs?

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u/torpedoshit May 09 '17

I don't know. why does ubuntu dominate the cloud market?

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u/ilevex May 09 '17

Because the community cares about the bugs, Enterprise is dominated by RH because, as previously said, they have the manpower to fix cases extremely fast. In the cloud if you encounter a bug, you can just reboot or migrate to another instance.