My read of it (as someone in the Debian/Ubuntu world) is that the CentOS split meant new sysadmins and users tended more towards Ubuntu. RHEL/CentOS is still a

My read of it (as someone in the Debian/Ubuntu world) is that the CentOS split meant new sysadmins and users tended more towards Ubuntu. RHEL/CentOS is still around, but you don't hear about it too often.