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[Erik Bågfors]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:22:12 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth
<mark at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> Jeff pointed this commentary out on the Sounders list recently:
> 
> >  "Commercial support for Ubuntu is available directly from Canonical, LTD
> >  (http://www.canonical.com/), which is the company that sponsors the Ubuntu
> >  project. Canonical's support offerings are listed on the Ubuntu site at
> >  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/paidsupport/. A substantial number of
> >  firms all over the world that provide support for Ubuntu are also listed
> >  in the Ubuntu Marketplace site at
> >  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/marketplace. The latter is an
> >  incredible testimonial to the wide-spread and well-established nature of
> >  Ubuntu after a relatively short time in Linux years."
> >
> >
> The marketplace is already shaping up nicely. Anything we can do to
> encourage more companies to list themselves there? I've cc'd this to the
> -users list because the ecosystem of companies providing Ubuntu support
> and services really affects end users, and I'm keen to get feedback.
> 
> I've created a wiki page at
> https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/MakingTheMarket for brainstorming on
> the subject. It's pretty sketchy right now. All suggestions on there
> welcome!

Mark,

Are there any plans to get the attention of large commersial software
companies such as Oracle and IBM to support Ubuntu? Currently they
seam to be very focused on Redhat and Suse and lot's of us can't move
to ubuntu for work because of this.

It's kind of sad for a free software fan like me, to have to decide
distribution based on closed source software, but that's the reality
for me... or... I use ubuntu at work, but the installation we do for
customers is all Suse or Redhat.

If ubuntu was supported by IBM (DB2 and TSM mostly) we would switch
our customers to ubuntu in a heartbeat.

Regards,
Erik