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Developers Prefer Commercial Linux For High Performance Computing
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While the open source nature of Linux and the availability of Linux source code appeal to developers doing mission-critical work, they also like the additional support they get with commercial products.
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008:
According to the latest Open Source Software and Linux survey by Evans Data Corporation, open source developers overwhelmingly say they would recommend using commercial versions of Linux over non-commercial versions when it comes to leading edge or high performance computing.
A similar number would also recommend commercial versions over non-commercial for mission-critical large enterprise development and data centre development.
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Non-commercial Linux is preferred for Web development and embedded systems.
“While the open source nature of Linux and the availability of Linux source code appeal to developers doing complex leading-edge and mission-critical work,” said John Andrews, president and CEO, Evans Data, “they also like the additional support they get with commercial products. And since improper configuration is the largest perceived security threat to a Linux system, configuration and management tools that come with commercial distros are important in these situations.”
Around 400 developers active in open source development participated in the survey which was conducted in August 2008. Here are some highlights from the survey: Ubuntu was used by 24 per cent of the open source developers and was the most used Linux distribution although the combination of Red Hat Linux (21 per cent) and Red Hat Enterprise (19 per cent) top Ubuntu use; VMware was the top virtual machine technology used by the open source developers, with just over a third reporting its use; Apache/BSD style licencing or GPL2 are by far the most used open source licencing models, with GPL3 and LGPL lagging far behind.
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