“We didn’t go with them because they didn’t support Ubuntu” is something that I wouldn’t have expected listening to a cloud service creator talk about selecting cloud vendors. That is exactly what I heard when I was at CPOSC last month. I took it as a throw away statement, and didn’t think much more of it.
Until today, when I saw this graphic posted by Steven O’Grady:
There is something very interesting happening in the cloud space, and it will be very curious to see how this evolves over time.