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title: "Linux and The Enterprise Cloud: A Canonical Gig"
date: 2009-11-13T18:19:52Z
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Earlier this week I was lucky enough to present to Canonical customers and prospects about what’s going on with the enterprise Cloud market. I was a little nervous because Simon Wardley was on the same agenda, and his cloud presentation is [a masterpiece](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okqLxzWS5R4). Luckily he came _after_ me though.

My basic thesis is that [Amazon Web Services remains the de facto standard for cloud computing](http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2009/03/18/amazon-web-services-an-instance-of-weakness-as-strength/). There are three kinds of economics you can’t compete with – Open Source, The Web, and Simplicity. Well: AWS embodies all three of those economic justifications. So what can the enterprise learn from Amazon?

Here is my deck:

[Enterprise Clouds With Canonical](http://www.slideshare.net/monkchips/enterprise-clouds-with-canonical "Enterprise Clouds With Canonical")View more [presentations](http://www.slideshare.net/) from [James Governor](http://www.slideshare.net/monkchips).



While I left the sales job to the chaps at Canonical, the commercial arm of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, I would say that the decision by Ubuntu to mirror AWS for the enterprise using the [Eucaluptus](http://open.eucalyptus.com/) architecture, based on Amazon’s AWS APIs, makes a great deal of sense. Rather than delivering more complexity to enterprises for their enterprise needs, Ubuntu is essentially saying: keep it simple. This is opinionated web oriented ops, rather than all singing all dancing all enterprise knobs and dials enterprise ops we’re hearing other vendors pitch. The demo by [John Willis](http://www.johnmwillis.com/) of the new Canonical Landscape monitoring and provisioning tool spoke clearly to less is more. More on that later.

Canonical paid for the speaking engagement and is a subscription client.