Survey: 96 percent of enterprises not deploying Ubuntu server
Goldman Sachs September 2008 IT spending survey delivers a sobering blow to suggestions of the rise of Ubuntu:
The enterprise isn't seeing it yet.
I've seen indications of Ubuntu adoption within customer surveys that Alfresco and others have done, but this survey of 100 IT executives from a range of Fortune 1000 companies suggests that perhaps the Ubuntu revolution still has a ways to go to make it in the stodgy old enterprise.
Granted, with CIOs representing 48 percent of survey respondents, and vice presidents of IT representing another 33 percent, we're unlikely to get a very good view of grassroots IT adoption. Even so, I would have hoped to see more than 4 percent of respondents indicating that Ubuntu is being used within their enterprises, especially given its ever-increasing adoption:
Enterprise Linux Adoption: Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu
(Credit: Goldman Sachs)On the glass half-full side, the fact that four percent of this crowd has even heard of Ubuntu...well, that shows progress. :-)
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Why go Ubuntu when there is RHEL and SLED?
"4% of Enterprises deploying Ubuntu Server"
For a young and small company like Canonical this sounds quite a success.
- by rurik_bradbury September 10, 2008 11:51 AM PDT
- I would bet the figure is more like 20-30%, when you include non-production systems -- but senior IT guys don't realize it. Perhaps the headline should be: "CIOs totally unaware of the software they use"?
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