Mark Shuttleworth's statements about his company and about Ubuntu do not stop. If not long ago we heard as in an interview, Canonical's CEO was adamant that Ubuntu for desktop would go ahead. Minutes later, he announced his intention to take the company to the Stock Exchange.
According to Shuttleworth, the company is now ready to go public, something that was already tried in 2005, but now the conditions are better. Shuttleworth has confirmed the intention to take the company public this year but has not set a timeline of the process.
Canonical will go public, but unlike previous years, the arrival this time it is made with all the elements favorable to the company.
Canonical will soon carry out an IPO to go public
On the one hand, there are the eliminated elements that were not profitable, at this point we refer to the suppression of Unity 8 and Ubuntu Phone.
On the other hand, Cloud-related projects have flourished up to being one of Canonical's flagship products. Leading companies such as Netflix, eBay, Walmart, AT&T or Telekom have chosen Canonical's platform to offer their services.
Mark Shuttleworth has claimed that first will perform a tune-up by synchronizing all products of the company. When this is done, it will conduct a round of mutual funds after which it will make a public offering of shares with which Canonical will go public.
So Canonical will finally hit the stock market, but it seems that before it will do some other cleaning, that is, that some other Canonical product will be discontinued for de side of the company.
Personally, I think there will be one more product that stops developing, but it will not be something as widely used as Unity. And it may not be eliminated but relocated, something that big rival Canonical companies already do. In any case it seems that Canonical is now more company than ever, but What will happen to Ubuntu? Will its use begin to have a price? what do you think?
They are more likely to keep desktop Ubuntu the way it is and stick with their core Server and Cloud services with maintenance for the minute. Now, another line is how they do Red Hat or OpenSuse saving production differences: System with paid maintenance and a free one maintained via Canonical and Community.
Given several possibilities, I would choose the first one, now, I hope that the injection of funds will allow them to develop with more quality and more products. Honestly, saving the phase: "Oh my gosh, they drop the GNU / Linux philosophy!" (which never followed and thanks), I like that a company that relies on Linux wants, and I hope it will, go public. It would imply that its importance grows, and the products that are in the future at the software or hardware level are interested in compatibility and multiplatform for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
I like the 3 systems, and I like that you can choose without restrictions, that is the freedom that I expect in the computer world.
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I do not think!
Seriously, I'm very interested in Ubuntu, but these articles seem like they were written by a little boy.