Mark Shuttleworth Advances Ubuntu for OpenStack | Linux Today

Mark Shuttleworth Advances Ubuntu for OpenStack

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Sean Michael Kerner
May 13, 2014

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux and its lead commercial sponsor Canonical, is passionate about OpenStack and his company’s role in it. In a dramatic keynote presentation at the OpenStack Summit here, Shuttleworth performed multiple technology demonstrations and made multiple new technology initiative announcements.

“Nearly 70 percent of OpenStack public clouds run on Ubuntu,” Shuttleworth said.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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