I'll add my two cents.
It's going to be awful hard to pin down a number. RH probably makes the most money in the server market, but debian servers are frequently free.
How are you going to account for numbers? Especially if the server is set up not to report the distro?
My server runs on debian, straight and pure. Why? Stability. I maintain it, and it the one distro I haven't broken to a point I need to format and re-install. I've borked RH, Mandriva and just hated the package management in SuSE. I've bought retail versions of all of those.
That said, I can see how big companies would lean to RH or SuSE or such over debian. I can't even imagine building a Ubuntu server. Madness, sheer madness.
JMNSHO, Jack
--- On Tue, 5/24/11, thomas@redhat.com thomas@redhat.com wrote:
From: thomas@redhat.com thomas@redhat.com Subject: Re: most commonly used Linux version? To: "jldugger@gmail.com" jldugger@gmail.com Cc: kclug@kclug.org Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 7:51 AM Again, these stats are suspect simply because they are from a relatively niche sample. No argument Ubuntu does great in non-paid space, but that ain't a sustainable business model.
And in enterprise compute, I simply never hear of Ubuntu. So if I were to do a quick survey of that niche space it'd look awful for Canonical.
There are three kinds of lies. Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
"jldugger@gmail.com" jldugger@gmail.com wrote:
Meanwhile, on Linode[1]...
48% Ubuntu 24% Debian 16% CentOS 4.3% Fedora 3.1% Gentoo
Now granted, #1 in nonpaying customers is kind of a tough spot to be in. And the RHEL pricing model doesn't lend itself to The Cloud. I imagine Canonical has a paid agreement to cater their OS to EC2, but we can't read their 10-K's so we'll never know.
Justin
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