Comments on: Ubuntu: Canonical’s New CEO Discusses Top Priorities http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/03/04/ubuntu-canonicals-new-ceo-discloses-top-priorities/ 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: Jef Spaleta http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/03/04/ubuntu-canonicals-new-ceo-discloses-top-priorities/comment-page-1/#comment-111825 Jef Spaleta Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:10:57 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=8976#comment-111825 Bill, Are there any existing launchpad bug tickets about this particular problem that you can reference? -jef Bill,
Are there any existing launchpad bug tickets about this particular problem that you can reference?

-jef

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/03/04/ubuntu-canonicals-new-ceo-discloses-top-priorities/comment-page-1/#comment-111820 The VAR Guy Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:01:27 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=8976#comment-111820 Bill: The VAR Guy appreciates your perspectives regarding potential Upstart challenges. Our resident blogger will check in with Canonical for their thoughts... Stay tuned. -TVG Bill: The VAR Guy appreciates your perspectives regarding potential Upstart challenges. Our resident blogger will check in with Canonical for their thoughts… Stay tuned.
-TVG

]]> By: Bill Getas http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/03/04/ubuntu-canonicals-new-ceo-discloses-top-priorities/comment-page-1/#comment-111817 Bill Getas Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:45:19 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=8976#comment-111817 Ubuntu 10.04 server has numerous huge new features (most blatantly something called Upstart). This causes all kinds of problems, including locking root out from box, even with physical access. This is no joke and not a sideswipe. In the midst of all the planned grandeur, let's keep focus on the little guys and actually keeping what should work flawlessly by now, well, working flawlessly. More work is necessary on Upstart, including a way to keep it from locking root out. This has happened three times to me personally, on three very different servers. Buyer beware. Other than that, however, Ubuntu is excellent on numerous other servers in prior releases. Ubuntu 10.04 server has numerous huge new features (most blatantly something called Upstart). This causes all kinds of problems, including locking root out from box, even with physical access. This is no joke and not a sideswipe. In the midst of all the planned grandeur, let’s keep focus on the little guys and actually keeping what should work flawlessly by now, well, working flawlessly. More work is necessary on Upstart, including a way to keep it from locking root out. This has happened three times to me personally, on three very different servers. Buyer beware. Other than that, however, Ubuntu is excellent on numerous other servers in prior releases.

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/03/04/ubuntu-canonicals-new-ceo-discloses-top-priorities/comment-page-1/#comment-107414 The VAR Guy Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:19:40 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=8976#comment-107414 Jef: Thanks for the list of questions. The VAR Guy will be sure to raise them during the next go-round with Canonical. -TVG Jef: Thanks for the list of questions. The VAR Guy will be sure to raise them during the next go-round with Canonical.
-TVG

]]> By: Jef Spaleta http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/03/04/ubuntu-canonicals-new-ceo-discloses-top-priorities/comment-page-1/#comment-107413 Jef Spaleta Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:42:47 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=8976#comment-107413 A few things I'd love to see a Canonical exec talk more about. Landscape: What's the trending on userbase growth? Canonical goes out of its way to publish numbers on estimates of Ubuntu userbase size.. and launchpad registration counts, but the uptake of Landscape is a complete mystery. They need to talk about that service more as its a critical part of their service portfolio. EC2: What is the business model there? What does Canonical offer as a for-pay service that specifically addresses EC2 users. There are several smaller companies leveraging the work Canonical is doing to make Ubuntu EC2 friendly to build their own businesses.. businesses like Jumpbox. Where's Canonical's revenue potential in EC2? For example what can Canonical offer in terms of image management that RightScale isn't already offering as part of their subscription services? I haven't really seen any Canonical exec talk about the business opportunity there at all..even in general strategy terms. Mobile (aka ARM): The Canonical funded Ubuntu on ARM seems to be stalled. What's happening there? How is Canonical planning to effectively compete against Google Android in the ARM dominated mobile space. It seems to me that Canonical has really been eclipsed by Google here. U1 Music Store: How does Canonical planning to turn that into a revenue stream? Do they get per song revenue kickback from 7digital when people use the U1 client interface versus just buying directly from 7digital's webstore? Hell, I'd even buy a couple of songs from 7digital through the U1 interface if I knew Canonical got a cut versus just using 7digital's existing easy-to-use and operating system agnostic webstore interface. -jef A few things I’d love to see a Canonical exec talk more about.

Landscape: What’s the trending on userbase growth? Canonical goes out of its way to publish numbers on estimates of Ubuntu userbase size.. and launchpad registration counts, but the uptake of Landscape is a complete mystery. They need to talk about that service more as its a critical part of their service portfolio.

EC2: What is the business model there? What does Canonical offer as a for-pay service that specifically addresses EC2 users. There are several smaller companies leveraging the work Canonical is doing to make Ubuntu EC2 friendly to build their own businesses.. businesses like Jumpbox. Where’s Canonical’s revenue potential in EC2? For example what can Canonical offer in terms of image management that RightScale isn’t already offering as part of their subscription services? I haven’t really seen any Canonical exec talk about the business opportunity there at all..even in general strategy terms.

Mobile (aka ARM): The Canonical funded Ubuntu on ARM seems to be stalled. What’s happening there? How is Canonical planning to effectively compete against Google Android in the ARM dominated mobile space. It seems to me that Canonical has really been eclipsed by Google here.

U1 Music Store: How does Canonical planning to turn that into a revenue stream? Do they get per song revenue kickback from 7digital when people use the U1 client interface versus just buying directly from 7digital’s webstore? Hell, I’d even buy a couple of songs from 7digital through the U1 interface if I knew Canonical got a cut versus just using 7digital’s existing easy-to-use and operating system agnostic webstore interface.

-jef

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