Shuttleworth has clarified that he has no plans of selling Ubuntu anytime soon. Ubuntu is not for sale…yetĪfter IBM bought Red Hat for $34 billion, people have started wondering if Ubuntu will be sold to a big player like Microsoft.
I have contacted Ubuntu for a clarification and I’ll update this article if I get an answer. Of course, ESM is a paid feature and it is one of the many ways Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, generates revenue.Īt the moment, it is not clear if the ten years support is for everyone or if it will be a paid service under Extended Security Maintenance. With ESM, the customers get security fixes for the kernel and essential packages for a few more years even after the end of life of a certain LTS release. Ubuntu has an Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) option for its corporate customers. What is not clear to me at this moment is whether the extended support is free of cost and if it is, will it be available to all the users including the desktop ones.
Ubuntu 16.04, scheduled to reach its end of life in April 2021, will also be given a longer support life span. …in some of industries like financial services and telecommunications but also from IoT where manufacturing lines for example are being deployed that will be in production for at least a decade. The 10-years support announcement for Ubuntu 18.04 is driven by the needs of the IoT market.
Toys, cameras, TVs, Refrigerators, Microwaves, weighing scales, electric bulbs and what not.Ĭollectively, they are called Internet of Things (IoT) and Ubuntu is focusing heavily on it. The smart devices are connected to the internet everywhere and these are not limited to just smartphones. A Move to lead the Internet of Things (IoT)
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