Comments on: Memo to Canonical: Call Monty Widenius http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/ Channel News, Reseller News and Channel Partner Programs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/comment-page-1/#comment-94963 The VAR Guy Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:55:18 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/#comment-94963 Linux Loner: Yes, Ubuntu is gaining ISVs. But The VAR Guy doubts they are close to Novell and Red Hat on actual ISV numbers. During LinuxWorld companies like OpenBravo vowed to port their applications to Ubuntu. But The VAR Guy hears some ISVs are behind on their promised Ubuntu support. And yes: You're absolutely right. Canonical needs to publish that list of ISVs and celebrate/promote it. Thanks for reading. Linux Loner: Yes, Ubuntu is gaining ISVs. But The VAR Guy doubts they are close to Novell and Red Hat on actual ISV numbers. During LinuxWorld companies like OpenBravo vowed to port their applications to Ubuntu. But The VAR Guy hears some ISVs are behind on their promised Ubuntu support.

And yes: You’re absolutely right. Canonical needs to publish that list of ISVs and celebrate/promote it. Thanks for reading.

]]> By: Linux Loner http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/comment-page-1/#comment-94962 Linux Loner Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:47:34 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/#comment-94962 Did you ever consider that Monty may already use Ubuntu? You may be pleasantly surprised. Really, TVG what does Monty bring? The reason Ubuntu is lacking ISV's is not because they cannot recruit them. You will find a HUGE list of ISVs supporting Ubuntu, but where is the "master" list? I guess you need to ask Steve George. Canonical really needs to publish this list because I do believe you will be pleasantly surprise as to the number of supported applications that do exist out there, but are not compiled into one, easy to find directory. I would venture to guess that this list rivals that of Red Hat and Novell. Did you ever consider that Monty may already use Ubuntu? You may be pleasantly surprised.

Really, TVG what does Monty bring? The reason Ubuntu is lacking ISV’s is not because they cannot recruit them. You will find a HUGE list of ISVs supporting Ubuntu, but where is the “master” list? I guess you need to ask Steve George. Canonical really needs to publish this list because I do believe you will be pleasantly surprise as to the number of supported applications that do exist out there, but are not compiled into one, easy to find directory. I would venture to guess that this list rivals that of Red Hat and Novell.

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/comment-page-1/#comment-94928 The VAR Guy Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:23:10 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/#comment-94928 Robert: Perhaps it's time for somebody to send Monty a gift-wrapped netbook running Ubuntu, with all the browser home pages set to Canonical.com... Robert: Perhaps it’s time for somebody to send Monty a gift-wrapped netbook running Ubuntu, with all the browser home pages set to Canonical.com…

]]> By: Robert Pogson http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/comment-page-1/#comment-94920 Robert Pogson Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:43:49 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/#comment-94920 Networking. It could not do Canonical one little bit of harm to add to its list of friends. Maybe Widenius needs Ubuntu in some way... Networking. It could not do Canonical one little bit of harm to add to its list of friends. Maybe Widenius needs Ubuntu in some way…

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/comment-page-1/#comment-94901 The VAR Guy Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:20:08 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/#comment-94901 Matt: You reply to blog posts nearly as quickly as The VAR Guy writes them. You have a solid point re: Monty not being involved in MySQL business operations. But developers are a tight bunch. And Canonical could certainly use access to Monty's Rolodex ... Still, you've shot down The VAR Guy pretty aggressively here. So our resident blogger is wondering: Is the blog post off base or will readers rally to our blogger's cause? (That's a thinly veiled S.O.S. from The VAR Guy to readers...) Matt: You reply to blog posts nearly as quickly as The VAR Guy writes them. You have a solid point re: Monty not being involved in MySQL business operations. But developers are a tight bunch. And Canonical could certainly use access to Monty’s Rolodex …

Still, you’ve shot down The VAR Guy pretty aggressively here. So our resident blogger is wondering: Is the blog post off base or will readers rally to our blogger’s cause? (That’s a thinly veiled S.O.S. from The VAR Guy to readers…)

]]> By: Matt Asay http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/comment-page-1/#comment-94898 Matt Asay Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:07:58 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/02/06/memo-to-canonical-call-monty-widenius/#comment-94898 Just one problem, Monsieur le VAR: Monty hasn't been actively involved in MySQL operations for...years. He's not the guy that has set up MySQL's business operations. Far from it. He's not the business side of MySQL. He's a great technical leader, but even in that department he's been offline for MySQL for a long time. This isn't to disparage Monty, but rather to disparage the idea that he'd be much of a help with Canonical's business, which is already heavy with ideals and needs more capitalist pigs. Just one problem, Monsieur le VAR: Monty hasn’t been actively involved in MySQL operations for…years. He’s not the guy that has set up MySQL’s business operations. Far from it. He’s not the business side of MySQL. He’s a great technical leader, but even in that department he’s been offline for MySQL for a long time.

This isn’t to disparage Monty, but rather to disparage the idea that he’d be much of a help with Canonical’s business, which is already heavy with ideals and needs more capitalist pigs.

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