Ubuntu Is Enterprise Friendly & Ubuntu Landscape is a Key to Rapid, Easy Deployment

Jul 31, 2007 by Roger Wheatley

Mark Shuttleworth says: Ubuntu Is Enterprise Friendly – Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote at the Ubuntu Live Conference centered on the fact that the Ubuntu server is capable of bringing the same values of its desktop version to the server market — ease of use, performance and compatibility. With Linux already driving the enterprise market through thin clients and dedicated systems, Ubuntu needs to maintain its ability to preform well as a virtual machine. Canonical will therefore be putting more resources behind Landscape, a web-based systems management client for small to medium businesses. In his conclusion, Shuttleworth called for the Linux community to hold discussions on setting a predictable release schedule for major distributions to ease collaboration among kernel developers and afford better stability and support for software developers working on the platform. Read more here: blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/shuttleworth-ub.html

Ubuntu Landscape – With Landscape, users can manage, monitor and maintain all their Ubuntu machines simply by registering them with the service. Focused on being easy to deploy, Landscape is immediately available with an easy to use Web interface to common administration tasks.
Security and stability are enhanced with visibility of new security fixes and updates as soon as they’re available for Ubuntu. Individual systems, or groups can be updated making it simple and quick to keep them secure. With package management across a range of systems the total cost of managing an Ubuntu deployment of desktops, laptops and servers is reduced. Read more about Ubuntu Landscape here: www.ubuntu.com/news/landscape-system-management-tool