Ubuntu: 9 Priorities for Canonical's Incoming CEO | Linux Today

Ubuntu: 9 Priorities for Canonical’s Incoming CEO

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 22, 2009

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“1. A New Community: Sure, Ubuntu has a strong open
source community. And Shuttleworth will work to strengthen that
community. But Silber needs to strengthen a different type of
community — a Canonical business ecosystem that includes
hardware and software partners, service providers, channel partners
and OEMs (original equipment manufacturers).

“2. Strengthen the Server Story: To date, Ubuntu is known mostly
as a desktop and mobile operating system, with relatively strong
market share in the netbook market. But Canonical recently launched
its second annual Ubuntu Server Edition research effort. Meanwhile,
Sun Microsystems offers some support of Ubuntu Server Edition
— as do upstarts like System76 and ZaReason.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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