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Amazon will be king of the cloud: Mark Shuttleworth
News Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth has said Amazon will emerge as triumphant in the battle for the cloud. Shuttleworth told a BT open source event yesterday that Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, or a closely related... [06 Oct 2009]
Ubuntu-using small businesses get a helping hand with helpdesk support
News Canonical has launched support services for individual and small-business users of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. However, the new Desktop Support Services, announced on Friday, are largely aimed at "small... [04 Aug 2009]
Ballmer talks getting "disruptive" in search
News We'll try some new products that are going to be a disaster," he said, pointing to Microsoft Bob, a software product, as the canonical example from the company's past. While trailing Google badly in search has lots of... [07 May 2009]
Ubuntu's Karmic Koala will make 'cloud dance'
News Extensive cloud computing functionality will be built into Karmic Koala, the next version but one of Ubuntu, sponsor company Canonical has announced. Canonical chief Mark Shuttleworth introduced Karmic... [23 Feb 2009]
Exploring the Enterprise Service Bus, Part 3: Four Approaches to Implementing a Canonical Message Model in an ESB
White Paper The ESB is a core architectural pattern in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). The role of the ESB is to provide connectivity between potentially heterogeneous service requesters (consumers) and service providers. [12 Feb 2009]
Sub-$200 netbooks on the cards from Freescale
News The design also incorporates a new power management integrated circuit from Freescale, as well as Adobe Flash Lite and the netbook version of Canonical's Ubuntu Linux distribution. Chipset manufacturer Freescale on... [06 Jan 2009]
Change the Rules of C++ With Defaulted Functions
White Paper Programmers have little control over the implicit declarations of the four canonical member functions. The compiler will not generate a default constructor for a class that has a user-declared copy-constructor. [20 Dec 2008]
Sun launches second version of OpenSolaris
News Sun has launched the second release of OpenSolaris, incorporating a number of improvements aimed at making it more competitive with desktop-orientated Linux distributions such as Canonical's Ubuntu. OpenSolaris is Sun's... [08 Dec 2008]
Photos: Windows 7, supercomputers, Google Labs, iPill
Photo Canonical released Ubuntu 8.10 this month - aka Intrepid Ibex. Ubuntu and many other open source software projects are hosted at Canonical's Launchpad site shown above. Photo credit:... [27 Nov 2008]
Ubuntu gets new netbooks boost with chip deal
News Canonical has announced it is to develop a version of its Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system specifically for ARM's Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor architectures. Thursday's announcement builds on that revelation,... [17 Nov 2008]
Photos: A first look at Canonical's Intrepid Ibex
Photo Canonical recently released Ubuntu 8.10, aka Intrepid Ibex. Photo credit: Canonical Photo credit: Canonical Photo credit: Canonical Photo credit:... [11 Nov 2008]
Canonical readies its latest Ubuntu Linux for launch
News Canonical will release the newest version of its Ubuntu version of Linux on Thursday, chief executive Mark Shuttleworth said Monday, but the company's profitability isn't on such a fast track. I think this downturn is... [28 Oct 2008]
Canonical hires Ubuntu makeover team
News Canonical, the leading backer of the Ubuntu version of Linux, is hiring a team to help make open-source software on the desktop more appealing and easier to use. The company plans to sign up designers and specialists in... [12 Sep 2008]
Canonical joins Linux Foundation
News Canonical, the company that sponsors the Linux-based operating system Ubuntu, has joined the Linux Foundation. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has been a member of the Linux Foundation board since... [20 Aug 2008]
IBM-Linux love-in targets Vista grumblers
News The deal with Canonical (the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu), Novell and Red Hat is designed to promote PCs running Linux alongside IBM business software, such as Lotus Notes, Lotus Symphony and Lotus Sametime. [07 Aug 2008]
