Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Sun Microsystems Starts Distributing Ubuntu

Hooray, my favorite daily driver distro. Ubuntu is on the move -- The signs are everywhere. Canonical, which developed this version of Linux, has been very busy talking with the major server and desktop vendors and is making inroads with both.

Sun Microsystems is one of the server vendors getting into the Ubuntu game, Sun also offers Linux distributions from Novell and Red Hat, but its inclusion of Ubuntu is a significant demonstration of Ubuntu's clout.

Sun is firmly committed to Solaris. No doubt about that. But think about how cool a Sun-acquires-Ubuntu-Linux story would be. Competition based on product quality, not on cheap support. That would be a hugely disruptive story to tell the OS market.

Give it a try, the price is right. Click Ubuntu on my sidebar.

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