I wrote the article and submitted it to HN. I can tell you that there was zero outreach of any kind whatsoever from Canonical for this. In fact getting info fo

I wrote the article and submitted it to HN. I can tell you that there was zero outreach of any kind whatsoever from Canonical for this. In fact getting info for publication out of Canonical is as hard as it is from SUSE or from Red Hat. As an example, I asked for a demo of Landscape after the last Ubuntu Summit, a year ago. I am still waiting. The reason I go to events like the Summit is to get info. Canonical paid for my flights and my hotel, yes, but Red Hat and the Linux Foundation also do that. But they did not invite me to it: I had to ask, as I had to ask last year as well. (They did not pay for my travel last year, as I lived in Prague at that time. It was a 25min journey on the tram.) I am sure from the outside world it looks like Linux companies pumping journos with info, but it really is not like that. When I approached RH for distro differentiation info, the senior sales manager told me that the company only sold one single Linux. After a few days of arguing, I pointed him at: https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms Where there are 5 product price points. (I think last year there were 6 or 8.) He then stopped replying to emails. Trying to get info from these guys is like pulling teeth, and that is one reason proprietary vendors do so much better and get more press coverage.