Ubuntu is now worried about profits

Fred A. Miller fmiller at lightlink.com
Sat Apr 24 21:48:53 BST 2010


On 04/24/2010 04:36 PM, Manish Sinha wrote:
> On 4/25/2010 12:28 AM, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>> "For the first five years of the company's life, it wasn't set up to make money,"
>> Asay said. "The company was set up to make a fantastic Linux distribution and other
>> tools around it and get it out there and get people using it. That was the focus."
>>
>> <http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3878416/Will-12000-Cloud-Computing-Deployments-Lead-to-Profit.htm>
>  Makes sense. The company cannot run forever on the deep pockets of 
> Mark Shuttleworth.
>
> Anyway, they did it correct. Build a famous linux distribution and 
> then sell services around it. Let's see how much Canonical succeeds in 
> this. Fingers crossed.

Yes, because it really needs to happen!

Fred

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