At least HP's public cloud is based on Ubuntu as host: http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/public-cloud/1913/hp-picks-ubuntu-cloud-operating-system http:

At least HP's public cloud is based on Ubuntu as host: http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/public-cloud/1913/hp-picks-ubuntu-cloud-operating-system http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/public-cloud/1913... I'd be surprised if they were the only ones. DigitalOcean, Amazon, Microsoft(!) all list Ubuntu as the most popular VM for linux servers. Can you point to stats or facts about RHEL deployments backing your point of view? I'm genuinely curious.