“For the six months ending April 30, 2018, SUSE saw revenues of $182.9 million, which represents continued growth of approximately 17 percent over the same period in the previous year. Adjusted EBITDA for that period was $56 million, nearly 23 percent year-over-year growth.”
Original source: SUSE Builds Momentum with Innovative Open Source Offerings, Revenue Growth and Commitment to Enterprise Customers
Tag: Linux
Link: Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud
“If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is your company. If you prefer a partner, which offers a soup-to-nuts stack, but at a higher price, look to Red Hat. And, of course, if you’re already wedded to VMware, you’ve made your choice. There’s room for all these approaches to the 21st century cloud and containers.”
Original source: Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud
Link: Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud
“If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is your company. If you prefer a partner, which offers a soup-to-nuts stack, but at a higher price, look to Red Hat. And, of course, if you’re already wedded to VMware, you’ve made your choice. There’s room for all these approaches to the 21st century cloud and containers.”
Original source: Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud
Link: Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud
“If you want OpenStack and Kubernetes support with vendor independence at a low price, Canonical is your company. If you prefer a partner, which offers a soup-to-nuts stack, but at a higher price, look to Red Hat. And, of course, if you’re already wedded to VMware, you’ve made your choice. There’s room for all these approaches to the 21st century cloud and containers.”
Original source: Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth pulls no punches on Red Hat and VMware in OpenStack cloud
Link: Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit
“A lot of institutions are figuring out that Ubuntu and upstream Kubernetes gives them 80% of what they need from PaaS, while the open Kubernetes ecosystem takes care of the remaining 20%. And that comes in at a third of the cost of Red Hat,” he said.
Also, he says they’re much cheaper than VMware and RHEL.
Original source: Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth takes aim at VMware and Red Hat at OpenStack Summit
Link: Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip
An edge device in every home, office, street corner, etc.
“The way it works is like this: Microsoft makes its system-on-chip (SoC) blueprints available to chip designers, which fabricate the chipset and flog it to IoT device makers. These manufacturers slap the silicon in their products, and run Microsoft’s Linux-based Sphere OS along with their own software on the chip, which connects to Microsoft’s Azure Sphere running on Redmond’s cloud.
Sphere does things like make sure gizmos only run official firmware, and automatically pushes out and installs bug fixes on remote devices, and so on. In the process, the chipmaker moves more silicon, the device vendor gets a turnkey security service to show to customers, and Microsoft gets a cloud customer for the lifespan of the device.”
Original source: Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip
Linux killed Sun?
For the Sun: WTF? files:
Gerstner questioned whether three or four years from now any proprietary version of Unix, such as Sun’s Solaris, will have a leading market position.
One of the more popular theories for the decline of Sun is that they accepted Linux way, way too late. As a counter-example, there’s IBM saying that somewhere around 2006 you’d see the steep decline of the Unix market, including Solaris, of course.
If I ever get around to writing that book on Sun, a chart showing server OS market-share from 2000 to 2016 would pair well with that quote.
If you’ve read Stephen’s fine book, The New Kingmakers, you may recall this relevant passage:
In 2001, IBM publicly committed to spending $1 billion on Linux. To put this in context, that figure represented 1.2% of the company’s revenue that year and a fifth of its entire 2001 R&D spend. Between porting its own applications to Linux and porting Linux to its hardware platforms, IBM, one of the largest commercial technology vendors on the planet, was pouring a billion dollars into the ecosystem around an operating system originally written by a Finnish graduate student that no single entity — not even IBM — could ever own. By the time IBM invested in the technology, Linux was already the product of years of contributions from individual developers and businesses all over the world.
How did this investment pan out? A year later, Bill Zeitler, head of IBM’s server group, claimed that they’d made almost all of that money back. “We’ve recouped most of it in the first year in sales of software and systems. We think it was money well spent. Almost all of it, we got back.”
CoreOS receives $8m in funding to bring its cloud-friendly Linux distro to market
Update: this report is now free to read, client or not.
As newsletter subscribers know, I’ve been working on a report about CoreOS. I find it intriguing as a possible “leap-frog” around cloud platforms like OpenStack…or possibly as future best buddies. Either way, it’s really interesting to watch that team try to re-imagine Linux for cloud scale.
The report is up now for clients, but here’s the 451 Take:
Along with companies like Docker (which CoreOS bundles) and Mesos, we’re seeing interesting trends that are reinventing how operating systems work, targeted toward cloud deployments. The end goal seems to ensure that Linux will not just become a component of cloud platforms, but become something of a cloud platform itself. CoreOS is an interesting tracer for this possibility. As CoreOS itself noted, gaining broader, ‘enterprise’ adoption is the main issue for a technology like CoreOS; most enterprises are slow to change over to new, automated methods of keeping raw infrastructure up to date. This of course leaves the early market pool as Web and cloud companies, which CoreOS seems gleeful to jump into. The ideas behind CoreOS are interesting and we’ll be watching to see how this cash injection will help fund compiling those ideas into running code and services.
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CoreOS receives $8m in funding to bring its cloud-friendly Linux distro to market
All the diagrams from CoreOS’s press kit.
