Is Ubuntu enterprise ready?
Anyone who follows Linux at all knows that Ubuntu is currently the Linux community's favorite distribution. But can Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, translate that popular success into business success?
Certainly, under the leadership of Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical is trying to do just that. While Ubuntu will always be a free distribution, Canonical has been putting together the alliances it needs with IHVs (independent hardware vendors) and ISVs (independent software vendors) to move into corporate offices.
Today, for example, Canonical business users can use such business mainstays as SugarCRM; IBM's DB2 database; VMware's VMI and Para-Ops; and Sun's open-source JEE (Java Enterprise Edition) 5 GlassFish application server, the Java SE Development Kit 6, Java DB 10.2, the Sun-supported version of the Apache Derby relational database manager, and the NetBeans IDE (integrated development environment) 5.5.
The company has also been working hard on its computer relationships.
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April 19th 2007, people from across the globe rush to the Ubuntu website and start downloading the latest Ubuntu release. With this new version of Ubuntu, Canonical wants to deliver the next step in the evolution of Linux on the desktop. Can they make it true? In this review we take a look at 'Feisty Fawn' and see what Canonical and the community delivered.
Back in March I previewed the Ubuntu 7.04 Herd 5 release and concluded with these words:
I like it. I like it a lot!
Ubuntu 7.04 will be a very sweet release. I can only hope that the new Gnome Control Center will be the default instead of the current menu structure and that desktop effects like Beryl or Compiz get a more prominent place in this wonderful operating system.
If you've been following up on Ubuntu's release you'll know that neither of my wishes came true. Both the Gnome Control Center and Beryl/Compiz were not found stable enough to be included in the final release. An understandable choice that was probably hard to make for the developers.
But despite the fact that these two nice features didn't make it, a lot did. Ubuntu 7.04 has turned out to be one hell of an operating system, I can tell you that already.
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