But she's no outsider swooping in to take over Ubuntu Linux's corporate sponsor. She joined Canonical in June 2004, two months after previous CEO Mark Shuttleworth founded the company with a few programmers he recruited from the Debian Linux project on which Ubuntu is based.
Since then Canonical has grown to about 320 employees and has made Ubuntu a major presence in the world of Linux--version 10.04, one of the important "long-term support" versions that arrives every two years, is due in April. It's an unusually sustained effort to make Linux a force on desktop and laptop computers, and among Canonical's accomplishments is a mainstream foothold on Dell PCs.What hasn't changed is the company's insistence on making the version of its software it gives away for free identical to the product it supports commercially--a move that still contrasts with Linux incumbent Red Hat. And another thing: six years on, Canonical still is not profitable.
Full Story: Meet Ubuntu Linux's new CEO (Q&A) - CNET
Since then Canonical has grown to about 320 employees and has made Ubuntu a major presence in the world of Linux--version 10.04, one of the important "long-term support" versions that arrives every two years, is due in April. It's an unusually sustained effort to make Linux a force on desktop and laptop computers, and among Canonical's accomplishments is a mainstream foothold on Dell PCs.What hasn't changed is the company's insistence on making the version of its software it gives away for free identical to the product it supports commercially--a move that still contrasts with Linux incumbent Red Hat. And another thing: six years on, Canonical still is not profitable.
Full Story: Meet Ubuntu Linux's new CEO (Q&A) - CNET
