Ubuntu Server Edition
"Ubuntu, which appears in Yankee Group's Global Reliability Survey for the first time this year, has also come on strong and is an open source operating system to be reckoned with. Some 22% of the survey respondents are running at least one Ubuntu server at their sites. And it has proven highly reliable, with 1.1 hour of per server, per annum downtime."
-- Laura DiDio, Yankee Group, 2008 Server OS Reliability Survey
Lower your cost of ownership
Easy to manage installation, startup, shutdown, service initialisation, package management – simple on a single machine and now across a data centre with Landscape.
Built for purpose – no bloatware and no extraneous applications clogging up what you really want to so - run the services that run your business.
The platform for open and free computing – save not only on the operating system but take advantage of the fantastic array of free server software out the to compound the savings for your organisation.
Simple to upgrade - get the latest and greatest every 6 months or stay for the longer term on a single platform in the knowledge that we will ease the upgrade path. It's long term confidence.
Simple to update - Debian packaging and APT packaging are recognised as the easiest, smoothest methods of introducing software to your server stack. It is pre-configured to insure a smooth introduction.
The ideal 'green' solution - whether it is virtualisation maximising your server efficiency or simply running a lean services across your network, Ubuntu is a great partner in the drive to improve efficiency.
Secure - the greatest risks to your business are eliminated. Continuous updates respond to the changing landscape of risk on an already hard to hack distribution.
Ubuntu brings ease-of-use and efficiency, with a typical deployment of a fully secured and configured deployment of standard services taking no more than 15 minutes.
The APT (advanced packaging tool) package management system allows you to get fast and reliable automated update mechanisms that you can control fully, and it covers not only the operating system but all of the open source packages that you install on top of it.
Ubuntu Server Edition has a dual release cycle. Every 6 months a version is released that contains the latest packages and updates. For greater robustness and easier planning, every two years an LTS version is released that is maintained for 5 years.
Ubuntu has an open policy rule. Each of our processes are discussed on our open mailing lists and written on our wiki, so anyone can check what on how we do things, and even propose improvements.
