Case Study: a large games company secures legacy PHP dependencies and avoids costly migration with Canonical Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu Pro helps large games publisher secure code dependencies and avoid costly migration

A large games company faced the challenge of securing its legacy code, particularly older versions of PHP, for its online and browser-based games. Maintaining these dependencies was expensive and skills-intensive, and a full migration to newer platforms would have taken 6-8 months, halting new content development and risking revenue. They chose Canonical's Ubuntu Pro to address this.

Canonical's solution, Ubuntu Pro, provided extended security maintenance for the legacy PHP versions and other open source dependencies, allowing the code to run securely on newer systems. This implementation was quick and flawless, with no performance loss. The results saved the company a costly migration, bought them two years to plan a formal migration, and freed developers to focus on creating new game content instead of maintenance.