What is Free Advantage? This is Canonical's commercial support package. Includes Landscape, Ubuntu systems management tools and the service Canonical Livepatch Service, which allows us to apply kernel fixes without having to reboot systems based on Ubuntu 16.04, the latest LTS version or Long-Term Support of the desktop operating system developed by the company that Mark Shuttleworth founded.
Ubuntu Advantage provides the world's largest enterprise security that companies may need to run mission critical workloads such as corporate databases, virtual / cloud servers, or infrastructure services using Ubuntu. But as has always been said, a picture is worth a thousand words and then you have explained what is this package in an infographic.
Ubuntu Advantage explanatory infographic
The infographic above these lines gives us an overview of Ubuntu Advantage, explaining the beneficial features for businesses, why Ubuntu is number 1 in the cloud for many organizations and includes a selection of Ubuntu Advantage clients such as:
- The news and financial information company Bloomberg.
- The telephone operators AT&T, Deutsche Telekom and NTT.
- The multinational Walmart stores.
- The eBay online store.
- The Cisco networking and communications products company.
- And the chain of stores Best Buy.
To be honest, it is not very surprising that companies choose Ubuntu or its Ubuntu Advantage to manage their companies and their security, since we are talking about a relatively easy-to-use version of Linux due to the amount of information that we find on the Internet. The weird thing would be if they used an operating system based on Windows or Android, the ones preferred by malicious users to execute their attacks. Would you trust Ubuntu Advantage if you had a company worth hundreds or billions of Euros?