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AT&T Chooses Ubuntu Linux Instead of Microsoft Windows (betanews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: one of the largest cellular providers is the venerable AT&T. While it sells many Linux-powered Android devices, it is now embracing the open source kernel in a new way. You see, the company has partnered with Canonical to utilize Ubuntu for cloud, network, and enterprise applications. That's right, AT&T did not choose Microsoft's Windows when exploring options. Canonical will provide continued engineering support too.
Going back to its roots in Unix,
AT&T Bell Labs invented Unix. Yeah, I know that's not quite the same AT&T as we see today (Bell Labs is part of Alcatel-Lucent-Nokia) but nonetheless today's AT&T is a direct descendant of the AT&T of the 1970s the developed Unix for it's own use. Heck, so they should be using Unix rather than Linux.. but they don't actually own it any more.
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"In the cloud, the competition is pretty even between everything that isn't based on Mac OS"
Please show me an example of competition in the cloud with a Windows OS? Even MS Azure is heavily Linux. Other than crufty aging enterprise running AD and Exchange, there is zero presence for Windows based servers. In the "cloud", AWS and the like provide their own directory services not to mention Oauth has become significantly more important than traditional LDAP.
Been that way for a decade now. What century are you in?
How major is google? and some others...
Serenity now, insanity later.
Sure. Here's a good reference from the Linux Foundation showing the continuing improvement of Linux's foothold in the context of cloud applications. 75% Linux (all flavors), 23% Windows (all flavors), etc.
but considering that the 75% figure is made of all Linux distributions, the breakdown is likely split between CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, et cetera. Everyone's in the double-digits. I'd call that comparable, potentially "even," and I'd certainly call that greater than your "zero presence" figure.
I'd attack your character much the way you attacked mine with "What century are you in?", but it's easier to just use facts.
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99% of the internet is run on Linux and BSD.
If you don't count 90% of the devices connected to the Internet.
They are clients or a shrinking set of servers, but not internet infrastructure. There's a solid reason for this, and that is security. Windows doesn't have it.
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