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Linux rules the Clouds

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Re: Linux rules the Clouds

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Post by davidj »

ghshephard wrote: post #5

RHEL (and SUSE, to some degree) is popular with two crowds - Enterprise Software Vendors who need to have a platform that they claim is "Supported", and anyone trying to run that software. Particularly Oracle and the like. These people typically spend money like it's water, so they're great customers and make Redhat lots of money. Centos used to be wildly popular as the "Free" substitute for RHEL, but, back around 20…

Red Hat is for enterprise solutions and is not for toy startups. RHEL 2.1 still rocks the business world and is a great operating system.

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Post by JonnieCache »

sagarun wrote: post #4

Since when amazon started publishing this information?

It doesn't. The author is simply wholly ignorant of any and all facts. This is ZDnet after all. He also attempts to directly compare Azure to Ubuntu, which is simply a basic category error.

Dear CBS, owner of ZDnet: I can churn out ill-informed garbage too, probably at a higher WPM than this guy, and I am willing to work for 75% of whatever you're paying him. I can be contacted via the URL in my profile. Thanks.

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Post by moe »

How, on earth, did this get 20 upvotes?

As others have pointed out the author clearly doesn't have a remote clue what he is talking about.

When you don't know the difference between an EC2 instance and an EC2 image then please refrain from writing articles about cloud providers...

Re: Linux rules the Clouds

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Post by moe »

chanks wrote: post #6

"Today, December 20th, Ubuntu is running 4,840 instances on EC2, followed by CentOS, with 1,250, Fedora with 313; Oracle with 80; and Red Hat with a mere 73 instances." Only ~6500 instances up and running on EC2 today? That seems to me to be too low by at least a couple orders of magnitude. Edit: Their cited source ( http://thecloudmarket.com/stats ) is a catalog of images, which makes a lot more sense.

Only ~6500 instances up and running on EC2 today? That seems to me to be too low by at least a couple orders of magnitude.

Yes, it's utter nonsense. The EC2 instance-count is in the millions, not thousands. The author just doesn't know the difference between instance and image.

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Post by endtime »

ghshephard wrote: post #5

RHEL (and SUSE, to some degree) is popular with two crowds - Enterprise Software Vendors who need to have a platform that they claim is "Supported", and anyone trying to run that software. Particularly Oracle and the like. These people typically spend money like it's water, so they're great customers and make Redhat lots of money. Centos used to be wildly popular as the "Free" substitute for RHEL, but, back around 20…

You're also just about forced to use RHEL if you're a customer of Rackspace's managed hosting. My life would have been quite a bit simpler on Ubuntu with Postrgres - RHEL and MySQL have led to at least one problem each - but Rackspace only supports MySQL on RHEL. Or at least, that was the case 15 months ago when I signed up with them.
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