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- Shuttleworth: Oracle now largest open source player
- Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun not only makes it a hardware giant but also a huge open source player, Ubuntu's founder said. On Monday, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu Linux, said the deal makes Oracle one of the largest if not the largest open source...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
- Every project needs an entrepreneur
- Leadership can define a project's mission, drive its results, and assure its future viability. As time goes by I think we'll see, more and more often, that the kind of leadership we're talking about is entrepreneurial leadership. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-01-12
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: "I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop"
- Mark Shuttleworth, the guy behind the most popular Linux distro Ubuntu, bursts a bubble during yesterday's press call: "I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop." by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-28
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
- Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has thrown down the gauntlet to his merry band of open source followers: Make Ubuntu as pretty and ultimately better looking than Apple's Mac OS. eWeek's Darryl Taft quotes Shuttleworth Techmeme: "The great task in front of...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- A quick note on Ubuntu for netbooks
- Few details are available yet, but Mark Shuttleworth revealed in an interview with the Guardian that a version of Ubuntu customized for the netbook market would be released in early June. Unfortunately, details are scarce; here's the line from the interview: [The Guardian]: Will you be...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Shuttleworth makes corporate case for Ubuntu 8.04 on its launch
- Updated Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth said version 8.04 features a sexier GUI for consumers but it’s the Long Term Support, Wubi Windows installer, server assets and expanding ecosystem that will make it a rising star in the corporate world. Ubuntu 8.04 Long Term Support...
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- How big can Ubuntu get?
- How big can Ubuntu get?Really, wrong question. Mark Shuttleworth is not in this for the money, heis in it for the sheer fun of it, pride, and recognition. He loves excitement, and he is living his dream. If he can keep from losing his fortune on this, it will be...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- How big can Ubuntu get?
- If you think desktop Linux has a future then Ubuntu is Da Bomb and Mark Shuttleworth is Da Man. Nearly half the Linux machines checked so far in the Open Source Census are running Ubuntu, and a new, even easier-to-use release comes out tomorrow. ...
- Blog posts 2008-04-23
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth blames ISO for OOXML's win
- Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth said the approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML is a “sad†day for ISO and the computing public. “I think it de-values the confidence people have in the standards setting process,†Shuttleworth said in an interview just hours after the...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Linux server, client will be big in the cloud and mobile sectors
- Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth sees Linux playing a big role in the cloud and in mobile computing â€" especially his own server and client software. In a brief interview with ZDNet after his OSBC panel, Shuttleworth said the Ubuntu Linux server will be...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: mobile Linux stalled by proprietary lock on industry, lack of neutral Linux platform
- Linux has not made significant strides in the mobile space because the industry is still too tightly controlled by proprietary manufacturers and and too contested by Linux rivals, Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth maintains. In an interview with Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin posted last night, the creator...
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Ubuntu Chief: Microsoft Invests Big $ On OpenXML Standards Effort
- Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is on a personal mission to crush Microsoft’s Open XML standards effort. On his blog Tuesday, the Canonical executive and Ubuntu developer encouraged members of the global open source community to reach out to their respective International Standards Organization (ANSI in the U.S.) and push for...
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Shuttleworth grasps open source political message
- To the Moon, Microsoft!Canonical CEO and space tourist Mark Shuttleworth has grasped the anti-American political message of open source and is using it this week at LinuxWorld. (The picture was distributed by a South African embassy.)It's a massive departure from his own blog post in May, when he called corporate...
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
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- IBM, Canonical partner to target Africa netbook market; Upend Microsoft
- Their timing is quite goodRight at this moment, the Internet infrastructure in Central Africa is being upgraded with new underwater fiber optic cable links that will ultimately bring Africa's broadband capacity on par with the rest of the world by late 2010. Their timing couldn't be better.Why not red hat...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Watch Out for That Meteor, Stallman.
- Show me the innovation StallmanWhile Microsoft pushes forward software technology and produces modern software, open source continues to copy the trailing edge of the innovators. Want an Office97 copy? Want a media player that works on all platforms but just not as well as Windows Media Player, want...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- Canonical walks the talk with Launchpad release
- Canonical walks the talk with Launchpad releaseOK. Now we're getting somewhere.Canonical/Ubuntu is nuclear fissionable material.It has mass, inertia, momentum and it is more symbolic than any other Distro of what drives open source Linux.To be fair though, I don't believe Ubuntu could have been as successful as it is without...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-23
- Ubuntu private clouds need more than tools; they need support, too
- Canonical, the London company that founded the Ubuntu Project, today announced professional services to support companies who are building "private cloud" infrastructures behind their corporate firewalls. Earlier this year, the company released a technical preview of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud UEC, an open-source system that allows companies to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Will Ubuntu remain a minor player
- It is time for open source advocates to take off the rose-colored glasses and ask if Ubuntu -- more appropriately its Canonical business arm headed by Mark Shuttleworth -- is ever going to be a factor below the server level. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-17
- Ubuntu 9.04 to be available for download Thursday
- Â Canonical will make its much anticipated Ubuntu 9.04 upgrade available for download on Thursday. The platform --which includes a desktop, server and netbook edition -- offers faster bootups (as fast as 25 seconds, its developers say), cloud support, OpenOffice 3.0, support for Skype...
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- GNOME can rescue Ubuntu in netbook market
- GNOME can rescue Ubuntu in netbook marketWhat problem?Would you care to be more specific? Exactly what problem does the Gnome UI give Ubuntu.And also what can be done to make software installation and update any easier? Most software is in the repo and you only have to select it and...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-05
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