You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Red Hat, Ubuntu and that blog post!
I've seen so many big ideas from Ubuntu/Canonical that went nowhere. Ubuntu is great, but they won't make money from the likes of us. There does seem to be money in cloud, but are they into that?
I get my news from the Ubuntu podcast and the old planet feed.
So they are into offering Cloud Services. Now I use that as a general term because Canonical always has been and I suspect always will be a Butterfly when it comes to the latest Buzz Word Service. The thing that's always in the back of my mind is:
1. It used to be, every new release the download servers would fall over.
2 . Ubuntu One and the App store were shut down because they kept falling over.
With that track record, I'm not sure I'd want to trust my PaaS etc to them.
I think they're doing "OK" in that field but again, that OK is a tentative OK (I so love the English language, we can make a lot of single words have so many different meanings LOL)
I really don't think Canonical is doing that well if truth be told. Mark does a great job of bigging his company up but you've only got to look on companies house to see that the profits are really pathetic by comparison we're talking like £500K which is eyebrow-raising when the image is of this hugely successful company.