- Easy to access, acquire and deploy
- Excellent Linux OS vendor service and support
- Suitable for enterprise applications
- Wide selection of vendor certified applications
- Extremely reliable
- Extremely secure
- Low cost to acquire
- Supportable with current staff’s skills
- Long-term stability/consistency of the code
- Integrates well with public cloud provider services
- Easy / automated OS management
- Linux market leader
- Best for Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Best OS for development
- Best Linux for containers
- Portability across datacenter and cloud, and across clouds
- Delivers the latest Linux innovation
- Supported by strong community