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What? There is almost no evidence that your comment is in any way true.

Ubuntu has great Long Term Support - which is exactly what this is about and the apt package management is far superior to Yum (IMO at least) - Plenty of high profile companies use Ubuntu for servers.

I will not voluntarily use "yum" on a server in a million years.

Debian has always been my favorite, and currently we use Ubuntu on servers as the OS-packages-as-shipped are more up-to-date; which turns out to be quite important in web-dev-land.

Frankly I dont know what CentOS/Redhat does better then Ubuntu nowadays, apart from selling enterprise stuff like JBoss :)

What's wrong with yum? I never had any issues with it on Fedora and CentOS and actually prefer it over apt* (mainly due to it's speed).

Ubuntu Server is quite nice, and for someone who uses (K)Ubuntu on the desktop it's nice to have an apt-based system on the server.