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Canonical
10 November 2010

La Gendarmerie Nationale upgrades 85,000 PCs to Ubuntu Desktop Edition

Case study Cloud and server

Summary La Gendarmerie Nationale's IT team must ensure that the police force can provide a responsive and cost-effective service nationwide. With growing IT infrastructure costs, the organisation decided to review its existing Microsoft based environment. After switching from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org and...

Canonical
10 November 2010


Canonical
21 October 2010

Canonical’s Ubuntu Developer Summit to bring together international community of developers to build the next Ubuntu

News Cloud and server

LONDON, October 20, 2010 – On the heels of Canonical’s latest release, Ubuntu 10.10, the company will begin its Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) on October 25, 2010 to discuss, design and develop Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) for release in April 2011. UDS is the Ubuntu event where the company – and the community – defines

Canonical
21 October 2010


Canonical
7 October 2010

Latest Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition makes cloud deployment easier than ever

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Canonical to sponsor users with free cloud time on Amazon EC2 to let users experience improvements for themselves Canonical today announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition for download on Sunday, October 10 — making it easier to configure, update and run both in development and deployment...

Canonical
7 October 2010


Canonical
23 September 2010

Intial Hebrew trials

Article Cloud and server

The Ubuntu project is going full speed. We have started intial work on the Hebrew and would like to share a few thoughts with you. This PDF illustrates how we arrived at some of the basic proportions. Pages 1 to 5 deal with the proportional relationship of the Hebrew height against the Latin x- and

Canonical
23 September 2010


Canonical
22 September 2010

The future of books?

Design Cloud and server

Check out these lovely ebook touchscreen concepts from IDEO. The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Canonical
22 September 2010


Canonical
21 July 2010

Canonical brings IBM DB2 software to Ubuntu on the coud

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Virtual appliances of DB2 for Ubuntu users enable fast, easy deployment OSCON, Portland Oregon – Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, has launched a virtual appliance of IBM’s DB2 Express-C software running on the Ubuntu cloud computing platform in private and public cloud configurations. Canonical also announced...

Canonical
21 July 2010


Canonical
7 June 2010

New Canonical services help businesses get ahead with Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop

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“Ubuntu Advantage” provides configurable support services to businesses LONDON, June 7, 2010 — Canonical today introduced Ubuntu Advantage – a comprehensive service that combines systems management tools, technical support, access to online resources, training and legal assurance. It is built to help businesses who have...

Canonical
7 June 2010


Canonical
25 May 2010

Canonical adds advanced enterprise features to latest version of systems management tool

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New 'Landscape' supports Ubuntu 10.04 LTS migration and cloud deployments for enterprises Canonical today announced the latest version of its Ubuntu-dedicated systems management tool that simplifies enterprise deployments with tools to configure multiple servers, connect with single sign on (SSO) authentication systems...

Canonical
25 May 2010


Canonical
27 April 2010

Canonical’s Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition features the ideal deployment platform for Linux server workloads and cloud computing

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Long-term support (LTS) version of popular server operating system generally available on 29 April Canonical today announced the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server Edition which includes extended security and maintenance updates free of charge to all users for five years (versus 18 months for a standard...

Canonical
27 April 2010


Canonical
1 January 2010

Canonical celebrates new UA: Landscape interface with Ubuntu Advantage free trial offer

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New interface significantly eases feature deployment for systems management tool LONDON, 1 December 2010 — Canonical today announced a free trial to showcase the entirely new interface for its systems management solution, Ubuntu Advantage: Landscape. Canonical celebrates new UA: Landscape interface with Ubuntu Advantage...

Canonical
1 January 2010


Canonical
10 December 2009

Canonical announces commercial services for its version control system, Bazaar

News Cloud and server

Set up, support and troubleshooting now available for new and existing deployments Companies and open source projects interested in using Canonical's popular version control system now have access to a suite of commercial services – Consultancy & Conversion, Training and Support – allowing them to migrate, deploy and...

Canonical
10 December 2009


Canonical
26 October 2009

Ubuntu 9.10 server edition released

News Cloud and server

Latest version of popular operating system allows businesses to build on proven Ubuntu server technology Canonical today announced the general availability of Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition for free download on Thursday 29 October. Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition introduces Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) as a fully supported...

Canonical
26 October 2009


Canonical
21 July 2009

Canonical releases source code for Launchpad

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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,...

Canonical
21 July 2009


Canonical
1 July 2009

Canonical delves deeper into the cloud, launches Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud services

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Partners with Eucalyptus to offer ‘private cloud’ assessment, proof-of-concept and support services. Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu project, today launched new professional services to help and support users building ‘private clouds’, cloud infrastructures behind a corporate firewall. The move follows the...

Canonical
1 July 2009