Canonical continues to aggressively equip its flagship Ubuntu Linux server software with more tools to help users build and run clouds.

The open-source OS now comes with the latest edition of the Docker virtualization container technology and, for the first time, Pivotal’s Cloud Foundry stack for running platform services. Both software packages allow customers to more easily move their applications and services around the data center and onto the cloud.


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“Until not that long ago, people built applications to run in a particular application server environment that may have been supported only on a limited number of operating systems or database environments. They had a restricted choice of options,” said Mark Baker, Canonical cloud and server product manager.

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