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Blog posts tagged
"Open source"


Canonical
4 December 2012

How will consumerisation of personal devices affect the choice of OS?

Desktop News

Best of our webinars – (Relates to content in this webinar) Along with the cloud, one of the big trends in corporate IT in recent years is the consumerisation of personal computing. Telecoms contracts have made smartphones affordable for nearly everyone, encouraging many business people to start using their iPhone or Google Android device ...


Canonical
8 October 2012

Cloud glossary and definitions

Cloud and server Article

Cloud has created its own vocabulary, with new words and phrases to describe technologies, practices and concepts that had scarcely been imagined five or ten years ago. And while everyone can agree on the definition of some of them, others are still in flux and used in different ways by different vendors and groups. It’s ...


Canonical
26 September 2012

The business case: open source maturity

Cloud and server News

Like nearly all companies around the world, our business has benefited massively from open source technology. Samba has helped us allow Windows users upload and share their work on the company intranet. The intranet webservers themselves run on Apache, with a MySQL database supporting a sales team portal. These technologies are invaluable ...


Jane Silber
20 April 2012

Make your voice heard in the open standards debate

Ubuntu open source

If you’re a keen follower of all things open source, you might already know about the UK Government’s consultation on open software standards. In short, the Government wants to reduce its IT costs and improve interoperability across all its departments and agencies; sensible aims, indeed. It is therefore considering making the adoption of ...


Canonical
4 October 2010

Ubuntu is the open source platform of choice for Oxford Archaeology

Desktop Case study

Out with the proprietary software and in with open source. Moving to Ubuntu is proving to be an excellent decision by Oxford Archaeology. Background Oxford Archaeology, as its name implies, is no high-tech newbie. The company, self described as an expert in excavation and heritage management, was founded in 1973 in Oxford, England and has ...


Canonical
30 September 2010

Ubuntu supports technology-enabled teaching at The Johns Hopkins University

Desktop Case study

Cost-effective, easy-to-use and reliable, Ubuntu proved to be the open source platform of choice on which to build a support system for technology-enabled classrooms at The Johns Hopkins University. Background America’s first research university, The Johns Hopkins University is a world leader in research and education. Sean Stanley, Instr ...


Canonical
27 April 2010

Canonical announces strong ISV and open source ecosystem support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Desktop News

Canonical announces strong ISV and open source ecosystem support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Canonical today revealed strong software vendor support for the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-term Support) release for both server and desktop. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, to be released on 29 April 2010, will ship with hundreds of open source applications avai ...


Canonical
5 February 2010

Open source industry veteran Matt Asay joins Canonical as chief operating officer

Desktop News

Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) — responsible for aligning strategic goals and operational activities, the optimization of day-to-day operations, and leadership of Canonical marketing and back-office functi ...


Canonical
3 December 2009

2009 Ubuntu Server Edition user survey

Ubuntu Server

The Ubuntu Server Team wants to know how you use Ubuntu Server Edition in day-to-day operations to help the team prioritize the support and development of the product.  This is the second edition of this initiative which was first introduced in 2008. In an effort to better understand, support and further the Ubuntu Server Edition ...


Canonical
21 July 2009

Canonical releases source code for Launchpad

Cloud and server News

Release of Launchpad to encourage innovation Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, announced today that it has open-sourced the code that runs Launchpad, the software development and collaboration platform used by tens of thousands of developers. Launchpad is used to build Ubuntu and thousands of other projects, and its users can ...


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