-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 02/04/16 06:07 AM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
... why is Canonical doing this? That's easy.
The business model for Canonical (as it is for any mainstream distro) is to make money from the human factors surrounding FOSS (training, support, documentation).
The link with MS offers new opportunities for the Linux services company that knows more about the MS/Linux integration than any other.
I don't imagine Canonical has the Enterprise covered to the extent that RedHat and SUSE do, but please let me know... https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/microsoft-and-red-hat-del iver-new-standard-enterprise-cloud-experiences see here https://goo.gl/EUpOVO https://www.suse.com/partners/alliance-partners/microsoft/ Your choice of GNU/Linux distribution maybe should take into account how inherently secure it is, you might look at the following information. More info at my blog. https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates / see here https://goo.gl/5hrWRu See here, ... Sicherheitsmeldungen aller Distributionen... http://www.pro-linux.de/sicherheit/1/1/1.html SUSE Enterprise software manager will indicate actual CVE reports and at a glance you can see which boxen need to be updated, etc. I also just read that RedHat is giving away RHEL to developers... http://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-expands-red-hat-de veloper-program-no-cost-red-hat-enterprise-linux-developer-subscription see here http://goo.gl/T4jATX I just attended SUSE Expert Days 2016 and IBM representative Mr. Greg R. Lee spoke about the latest IBM innovations in hardware/processing and sheer power of LinuxONE (R) technology in combination with open-source db's running on SUSE Enterprise Linux, I put up a review at my blog, see below. regards, Daniel Villarreal youcanlinux.org youcanlinux@gmail.com PGP key 2F6E 0DC3 85E2 5EC0 DA03 3F5B F251 8938 A83E 7B49 https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF2518938A83E7B49 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJW/7cfAAoJEPJRiTioPntJlrIIAIXNeuzCx6eb23R/1Wwg2+Hn uXiG8f5pM2TfXiIKwxrLTHv/Oj8phKZf+ChUCZBw0r/bhk422nbjFRsv+KitEoUW VnoBGMYAuQaqAIxBlCktPAl9BlkiJBID8bPttOL51lyyvHfU09FJwcgGIAgEesH9 6FUIHi2fw56N7agQxSozZ8LS3YMX+bNco7r7noDlQTTDwkvB6DCUkLY8r4ch/MV0 HomjHIYrli6qHm6ezd+xtWBLLRbmx2EY35C26p9kLGs15hIcyVo+FswHESKx1vlc WQYVkI0Ybs66KJc89RZBQMLJbtdEnUFfNT11B32QJe/a8oZAAi+q80dCJ38EAoU= =oCCs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----