Ubuntu's Mark
Shuttleworth says that his Linux based operating system is going great guns
with more than 10 million people running the beast.
He claimed that Ubuntu
represents a serious threat to Microsoft's hegemony in developed countries
and perhaps even more so in those regions catching up to the technology
revolution.
Speaking to the Ubuntu Developer Summit that if the OS was
successful it will fundamentally change the operating system market.
Microsoft would need to adapt, and he didn't think that would be
unhealthy.
Close to half of Google's 20,000 employees use a slightly
modified version of Ubuntu, playfully called Goobuntu. A spokesgoogle
told the International Herald Tribune that Ubuntu had captured people's
imaginations around the Linux desktop.
It would be the greatest bet for
open-source software at Google. "If there is a hope for the Linux desktop, it
would be them," they said.
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