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...Except there are three players in that game already. Go by the names of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu
We see SUSE and REL at corps and enterprises, not so much Ubuntu. None offer something like GRID though. Central management tool for Admins to deploy all systems equally from central location, with dashboard view, without having to run scripts or autoYAST to keep systems the same
Ubuntu is deployed all over the place for data science.
I'm fairly sure this is because data scientists got used to running it on their personal machines and can't be bothered to learn another distro.
Ubuntu made Linux easily accessible to anyone, so you are probably right.
For the enterprise stuff we work with only REL and SUSE are certified to install on, and work with the software. OpenSUSE works too because of the shared binaries with SUSE