Comments on: Does Ubuntu Need Server Hardware Partners? http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/25/does-ubuntu-need-server-hardware-partners/ WorksWithU is the independent guide to Ubuntu Linux Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:34:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Boltronics http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/25/does-ubuntu-need-server-hardware-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-7560 Boltronics Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:37:39 +0000 http://www.workswithu.com/?p=1751#comment-7560 @Jef: Here's one example of a school using Ubuntu: http://www.cio.com.au/article/333686/nz_school_ditches_microsoft_goes_totally_open_source The article is light on the details of what was paid, so more research would be required. @Jef: Here’s one example of a school using Ubuntu:

http://www.cio.com.au/article/333686/nz_school_ditches_microsoft_goes_totally_open_source

The article is light on the details of what was paid, so more research would be required.

]]> By: jef spaleta http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/25/does-ubuntu-need-server-hardware-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-7530 jef spaleta Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:08:55 +0000 http://www.workswithu.com/?p=1751#comment-7530 Joe: Find me any k-12 organization that is deploying Ubuntu and paying for a landscape subscription or annual support services to manage their deployment via budgeted funding instead of being gifted support by Canonical in order to help the deployment happen. If you want to make the bold claim that academic deployments are going to drive revenue...go out and find academics who are paying Canonical. -jef Joe:

Find me any k-12 organization that is deploying Ubuntu and paying for a landscape subscription or annual support services to manage their deployment via budgeted funding instead of being gifted support by Canonical in order to help the deployment happen. If you want to make the bold claim that academic deployments are going to drive revenue…go out and find academics who are paying Canonical.

-jef

]]> By: Joe Panettieri http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/25/does-ubuntu-need-server-hardware-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-7525 Joe Panettieri Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:36:23 +0000 http://www.workswithu.com/?p=1751#comment-7525 Alan@1: Eucalyptus is being downloaded about 15,000 times per month. Not a massive number, but big enough to show that plenty of people are testing it... Jef@2: Agreed, deployments do not equal sustainable revenue. And academia is a cost-conscious vertical market. But K-12 and higher ed have treated folks like Apple, Dell, Microsoft and Sun well for years... Alan@1: Eucalyptus is being downloaded about 15,000 times per month. Not a massive number, but big enough to show that plenty of people are testing it…

Jef@2: Agreed, deployments do not equal sustainable revenue. And academia is a cost-conscious vertical market. But K-12 and higher ed have treated folks like Apple, Dell, Microsoft and Sun well for years…

]]> By: jef spaleta http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/25/does-ubuntu-need-server-hardware-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-7524 jef spaleta Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:00:37 +0000 http://www.workswithu.com/?p=1751#comment-7524 Deployments do not equal sustainable revenue. Who's willing to pay Canonical for support services for UEC? Besides the training course...what is Canonical's UEC specific revenue generating services? Academic institutions are going to run UEC as a no-cost option... but are they going to pay for service and support contracts to Canonical? Academics are notorious penny-penchers and love to do things on the cheap relying on in-house manpower instead of paying for professional support services. Can Canonical really squeeze any money from that group? You can not easily build a business servicing wide spread academic deployments. -jef Deployments do not equal sustainable revenue. Who’s willing to pay Canonical for support services for UEC? Besides the training course…what is Canonical’s UEC specific revenue generating services?

Academic institutions are going to run UEC as a no-cost option… but are they going to pay for service and support contracts to Canonical? Academics are notorious penny-penchers and love to do things on the cheap relying on in-house manpower instead of paying for professional support services. Can Canonical really squeeze any money from that group? You can not easily build a business servicing wide spread academic deployments.

-jef

]]> By: Alan http://www.workswithu.com/2010/01/25/does-ubuntu-need-server-hardware-partners/comment-page-1/#comment-7522 Alan Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:19:52 +0000 http://www.workswithu.com/?p=1751#comment-7522 I may not understand the question properly, but how many IT shops are going to buy a cloud-sized piece of iron and then run an OS on it that the HW vendor doesn't explicitly support? I may not understand the question properly, but how many IT shops are going to buy a cloud-sized piece of iron and then run an OS on it that the HW vendor doesn’t explicitly support?

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